A shelter for honest questions.
The Grove is a place in Port St. Lucie where skeptics and believers explore faith and doubt together. You won't be asked to pretend.
Plan Your VisitHonest wrestling with faith & doubt.
It is our dream to be a place where believers and skeptics have authentic community and honest conversations about faith and doubt. In The Grove we encourage everyone to be honest about their doubts. Often what we wrestle with will lead through doubt to a greater belief. Most of us just need a place that will give us space to wrestle.
Questions are the path to discovery, so we strive to be a shelter for honest questions. In fact, we see it as an honor to walk alongside our city and its people as we together explore hard questions about God, hope, faith, who Jesus is, and what it all means.
Believer and skeptic alike long for more.
We want to pull on the thread of longing. It will pull us and push us out on the grand and thrilling adventure to see where our longings will lead us. We hope you will join us this Sunday.
Join Us This SundayHonest questions, honest answers.
Can I come to church if I'm not sure I believe in God?
Yes. You won't be asked to pretend. Some of the people who have been part of The Grove the longest would still check the box marked “unsure.” We want you to find faith in Christ, but we also value you as a person and hope to be your lifelong friend no matter what you decide.
Is it okay to have doubts about Christianity?
We think facing doubt honestly is how faith grows up. A faith that has never been questioned is usually a faith that has never been needed. One of our core values is “Wrestling with Faith & Doubt.” In facing our doubts, we find faith. That is not a slogan we put on the wall and forgot. It is how most of us got here.
What if I hear something I disagree with?
Text it in. Every Sunday ends with a live Q&A where you can send in your question during the service, the honest ones and the hard ones, and hear it answered that same morning. Disagreement is not a disruption here. It is part of the service.
I've been hurt by church before.
We're sorry to hear that, and many in our church have been hurt by churches as well. We are a place you can heal.
Listen in.
Every church website says you're welcome. Rather than ask you to trust a webpage, we'd rather you hear how we actually talk about these things. Three sermons to start with:
Wrestle With Faith & Doubt
In Genesis 32, Jacob spends a whole night wrestling a God he cannot see clearly, and he walks away with both a limp and a blessing. This sermon is the heart of who we are: why God is not offended by your questions, why wrestling is not the opposite of faith, and why the people who grip God hardest are often the ones who almost let go. If you only listen to one, start here.
A Shelter for Honest Questions
“Come now, let us reason together,” God says in Isaiah 1. Ask, seek, knock, Jesus says in Matthew 7. This sermon explains why The Grove treats hard questions as a doorway instead of a threat, and what it means for a church to be a shelter: a place where you can bring the question you have never been allowed to say out loud.
Our City, As It Is In Heaven
This is our hope for the city, its flourishing. From Isaiah 61, this sermon casts the vision that shapes everything we do: a church that exists not for itself but for Port St. Lucie, working and praying for the spiritual, emotional, and cultural flourishing of the Treasure Coast.
Come as you are. We mean that.
If you want to know what we believe, start with What We Believe. If you're ready to see it for yourself, Plan Your Visit tells you exactly what to expect, down to the parking.