Can You Define These Words?

Posted by on Dec 15, 2010 sin,   confess,   believe,   repent,   forgive,   Savior,   Christian,   testimony,   Lord,   perish,   church,   grace I mean can you really define them? Look back up at these words. What do they mean to you? We hear these words often in worship. Sometimes I wonder if they have begun to lose their meaning for us. We just take the words for granted and don’t stop to think...
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The Chuch of Nice, Part II

Posted by on Dec 1, 2010 Last week I wrote about a new trend coming from youth who believe they attend the church of nice rather than the Church of Christ. They see church as a place to be shaped into a good, moral person instead of a place to be formed by Holy Spirit under the leadership of our Lord Jesus Christ. I asked the youth here at FBC what they thought. As a collective group they concluded that while church does...
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Church of Nice, Part I

Posted by on Nov 25, 2010 I am reading a book called Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church, by Kenda Creasy Dean. Based on research from the National Study of Youth and Religion, she explains that the trend we are seeing from youth is that they believe they attend the church of nice rather than the Church of Christ. This study found that youth today see church as a place to be...
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