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• How Can I Find Purpose in my Life?

  God is love, and He created human beings as living recipients of that love. When you open yourself to the love of God, through turning away from evil and what is opposed to God, and learning to love and do what is good, you will be filled with God’s love, and with all the blessings and happiness that come with it.

• Does Trusting God mean I have to Stop Thinking for Myself?

  New Christianity teaches that we are given freedom and reason and that the Lord wants us to be able to understand Him, and the way He leads us, and what His plan is for our lives. The New Church does not believe in blindly following something that doesn’t make sense to us.

• Why Am I Here?

  Who am I? Why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing while I’m here? These are important questions each one of us asks ourselves perhaps even many times during our lifetime. We ask questions such as these as we gaze at the immense heavens above us on a warm summer night, or feel the painful core of our existence during particular life-struggles, or witness the birth of a child, or the passing away of one whom we love. What is this life all about?

• What About Reincarnation?

  The New Church does not believe in reincarnation in the sense that a person’s spirit comes back to earth in a different form, repeatedly, until it is perfected. We do believe, however, that when a person dies, their spirit is continually growing and perfected to eternity. Eternity is not some stagnant location where one’s spiritual journey plateaus.

• Why do Bad Things Happen?

  The Lord’s governance of all people is called His Divine Providence. There is nothing that happens outside of the care of the Lord and His providence. This does not mean that the Lord wills evil things to happen. The Lord is continually providing for all that is good and true and useful to effect us and inspire us. His will is only that good things happen. However, He also created people to be free. Therefore people make choices that are merely somewhat good, or partially good and sometimes downright evil and wrong. The Lord is present with people in these choices trying to bend them to a lesser evil or even to what is good.