Go love
well.
Loving people well — in this room and out in the city — is the mission. Finding awe on purpose is the method. We'd love to meet you!
The Arsenal is a place where doubt isn’t dangerous and nothing has to be hidden.
We’re more interested in awe than easy answers — a community learning to ask better questions and love the city well.
“It’s not just dots on a page, but connections interwoven to make up who we are.”
Hundreds of pins. String weaving between them — sometimes it looks messy — but look long enough and the A appears. Each pin represents a person on their faith journey. The string represents the connections we make in community. Together we are the Arsenal. "A group of people available to be used to show the love of God to the world." Go Love Well.
The Code
What you can count on here.
Questions over answers
Growth starts with a better question. We’d rather sit honestly in a hard one than hand you a tidy one that doesn’t hold.
Nothing has to be hidden
It matters less that everything gets fixed than that nothing ever has to be hidden. Bring the whole story.
Awe over fear
We left fear-based religion behind on purpose. Fear narrows; awe widens. We’d rather live wide.
Love, out loud
The point was never looking right — it was loving well. Go love well; it’s who you were made to be.
Doors
However you found us, there’s a way in. Start wherever fits — no pressure, no fine print.
All the ways in →New Here
What a Sunday actually looks like, parking, and what to do with your kids.
Plan a visit →Arsenal Kids
Newborn–11. Secure check-in and a morning your kids look forward to.
For families →Tables
Smaller rooms where the real conversations happen. Pull up a chair.
Find a table →Pitch In
Love the city with your hands. There’s a place for whatever you’re good at.
Get involved →Messages
Honest, thoughtful teaching you can wrestle with. Watch or listen anytime.
All messages & podcast →Neighborhood
We love Southtown. Here’s where we’d send a friend before or after a Sunday.
The whole guide →Stranded Coffee
The closest good cup to our front door. Grab one on your way in.
Learn more →The Haven
Breakfast tacos worth showing up early for — our unofficial pre-service ritual.
Learn more →Gold Coffee
The coffee we actually serve on Sundays — and our favorite shop in Southtown. A short drive south; worth it.
Learn more →The Friendly Spot
Icehouse energy, a giant patio, and the most San Antonio crowd you’ll find.
Learn more →Rosario’s
A Southtown institution. Loud, colorful, and worth the wait on a weekend.
Learn more →Blue Star Arts
Galleries, makers, and First Friday. The creative heart of the neighborhood.
Learn more →We’re a neighborhood drop-off for Mission Compost.
Sign-up for a membership and then bring your food scraps on a Sunday — we’ll keep them out of the landfill and give them back to the soil. Loving our city includes the ground under it.
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What we believe — and how we hold it.
We lead with a posture before a paragraph of doctrine. Faith, for us, is less about getting every answer right and more about trusting Christ and learning to love well.
We hold the historic center of the faith with conviction — and we hold the edges with open hands. Certainty isn’t the goal; awe is.
Do I have to believe all the right things to belong?
No. Belonging doesn’t have anything to do with believing. You don’t have to sort out your theology, your past, or your doubts to be one of us. Most of us are still working it out anyway.
What’s your statement of faith?
We’d rather show you who we are than hand you a wall of doctrine. We affirm the historic core of the Christian faith — God as loving Father, Son, and Spirit; Jesus at the center; grace as the ground we stand on. Beyond that center, we leave room to wonder, question, and grow.
How do you read the Bible?
Seriously — which, for us, means not flatly or fearfully. We read it as a living, honest, sometimes-difficult library that points us toward love, not a rulebook to win arguments with. We’d rather wrestle with it than pretend it’s simpler than it is.
What if I have doubts?
Then you’re in exactly the right place. Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith here — it’s often the beginning of it. Bring the hard questions. We won’t flinch.
Who is actually welcome?
Everyone — no fine print. We’ve worked hard to make sure “welcome” isn’t a word that runs out of room once you’re inside the door.
Where do you stand on LGBTQ+ inclusion?
Full inclusion. LGBTQ+ people belong at The Arsenal — in the room, at the table, serving, leading, loved and known. Welcome here doesn’t come with an asterisk. If church has ever made you feel like you had to choose between being yourself and belonging to God, we’re sorry — you don’t. Not here.
Can women lead?
Yes. We don’t limit how someone serves or leads based on gender. It's that simple.