| In the
fall of 2002, Atonement celebrated 40 years of worship and
ministry in the Rosemont and surrounding areas of the greater
Sacramento region. We are an inclusive congregation which
welcomes and encourages all people, regardless of race, language,
previous denominational affiliation, gender, or sexual orientation
to worship with us that we may enjoy all the spiritual gifts
that God gives to God’s people.
Come worship with us,
David A. Peters
Pastor |
|
 Atonement
conducted its first worship service on Easter July 14, 1963
on its present site in the suburb of Rosemont. Financial contributions
from congregations throughout the country in the 50’s
and 60’s made it possible, through The American Lutheran
Church, to purchase the land and construct the sanctuary and
multi-purpose room still in use.
Over the last 40 years, Atonement lived through what religion
observers cite as major shifts in the American church and
culture including the decades of religious activism (justice,
politics, race relations, war & peace), a gradual erosion
of the legitimacy of traditional institutions (business, government,
education, the churches, the family), and various expressions
attempting to fit God into the world (science, moral challenges,
novel problems of knowledge). The modern period, in some respects,
reduced God to the “mirror image of culture” catering
to the human desire of being autonomous, individualistic,
and advancing and maximizing self-interest—using God
to construct the world rather than a biblical way of seeing
the world.
Today Atonement exists in a post-modern world where “everything
is possible and nothing certain” and where church and
the Christian message has shifted from a position of influence
to a “permitted option in the private sector.”
Atonement explores its place as a church in the world (community)
even though the Gospel is not of the world and that Christ
did not bring a new religion to the world but new life.
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