Try looking at a Calvary Chapel in your area. I had looked for a church for YEARS. I had to settle for a Baptist church.....which shut down for months during Covid. Then I found a Calvary Chapel. I knew I was in the right place, 1) the pastor preaches ALL of the Bible, 2) he DID NOT shut down during Covid. 😍
Try looking at a Calvary Chapel in your area. I had looked for a church for YEARS. I had to settle for a Baptist church.....which shut down for months during Covid. Then I found a Calvary Chapel. I knew I was in the right place, 1) the pastor preaches ALL of the Bible, 2) he DID NOT shut down during Covid. 😍
Oh, and the pastor invites anyone who is not born again to accept Christ as Lord and Savior.......EVERY SINGLE SUNDAY! In all my years, I have NEVER heard a pastor do that.
I've attended several churches that always end that way. Baptists mostly do it and used to be Nazarenes did. I'm not exactly for it because church is for the believers.. not a place to proselytize. I get that the pastors don't want to miss an opportunity tho and actually, few churches are run according to scripture these days, so I'll just be glad the Word is going out no matter the details.
Church is for believers? Really? According to Jesus in Luke 5:30-32:
"But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus answered them, “It is NOT THE HEALTHY WHO NEED A DOCTOR, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” [Emphasis mine.]
Read on into Acts and Paul’s letters… Jesus was not conducting church. He was the Messiah and brought his gospel TO the people. Church itself, as in meeting together, is for the believers to encourage one another to good works, where believers learn how to grow, to relate, how to be a Christian. It is for prayer and praise. And the covenant of communion. We go out into the world to share the gospel. “church” … or the meeting together … is for believers already. I know that’s not a popular opinion. And if you’re not familiar with house churches or cell churches it will be very foreign. But small groups are where growth discipleship occurs. Not the entertainment style of big churches.
The late Frank Barker at Briarwood Presbyterian in Birmingham, Alabama always ended his sermons with, “How should we respond to this (sermon)? Well, if you’re a Christian…. If you haven’t given your life to Jesus…”
Try looking at a Calvary Chapel in your area. I had looked for a church for YEARS. I had to settle for a Baptist church.....which shut down for months during Covid. Then I found a Calvary Chapel. I knew I was in the right place, 1) the pastor preaches ALL of the Bible, 2) he DID NOT shut down during Covid. 😍
Oh, and the pastor invites anyone who is not born again to accept Christ as Lord and Savior.......EVERY SINGLE SUNDAY! In all my years, I have NEVER heard a pastor do that.
I've attended several churches that always end that way. Baptists mostly do it and used to be Nazarenes did. I'm not exactly for it because church is for the believers.. not a place to proselytize. I get that the pastors don't want to miss an opportunity tho and actually, few churches are run according to scripture these days, so I'll just be glad the Word is going out no matter the details.
Church is for believers? Really? According to Jesus in Luke 5:30-32:
"But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus answered them, “It is NOT THE HEALTHY WHO NEED A DOCTOR, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” [Emphasis mine.]
Read on into Acts and Paul’s letters… Jesus was not conducting church. He was the Messiah and brought his gospel TO the people. Church itself, as in meeting together, is for the believers to encourage one another to good works, where believers learn how to grow, to relate, how to be a Christian. It is for prayer and praise. And the covenant of communion. We go out into the world to share the gospel. “church” … or the meeting together … is for believers already. I know that’s not a popular opinion. And if you’re not familiar with house churches or cell churches it will be very foreign. But small groups are where growth discipleship occurs. Not the entertainment style of big churches.
The late Frank Barker at Briarwood Presbyterian in Birmingham, Alabama always ended his sermons with, “How should we respond to this (sermon)? Well, if you’re a Christian…. If you haven’t given your life to Jesus…”