Mercy Street Church of Christ
Abilene, TX
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Welcome to Mercy Street Ministries!

Mercy Street Church of Christ is a new church planting in Abilene, Texas. The Mercy Street Church of Christ is a multi-racial, multi-cultural, gender-inclusive Church of Christ.

News: Our friend Leroy Garrett has written a fine essay mentioning Mercy Street Church of Christ and our inclusive mission. Take time to read it. We've posted a copy of it on this web site under "Latest News." You can also search his web site leroygarrett.org Our friend JTB has also posted it on her blog "Rude Truth." Thanks Leroy. Thanks JTB. Blessings to you.

Update: We were pleased to have Kasey McCollum preach the Word to the Mercy Street Church of Christ, Sunday, Sept. 20th. Her sermon was based on Psalm 1. See more about Kasey's sermon on the sermon circle page.

We gather together on Sundays for worship in the upper room at the home of Stan & Lorrie Baldwin at 11:00 a.m. This will be our meeting place until we need to move to a larger space.

You are invited to worship with us. Let us know (email) if you'd like to worship with us. We would love to have you join us.

Our worship time together includes praise and prayer in word and song. We participate in the Lord’s Supper and hear a good word proclaimed from scripture. Women and men equally participate in our service.

Seeking Women Preachers! We are scheduling guest preachers for our worship services for the next few months. If you feel called by God to preach contact Stan at the following email address. Or maybe you don't have that mysterious prompting people refer to as a "calling." Perhaps you just have a good word to proclaim to the church. Women from the Church of Christ heritage from the Abilene, Texas area or those who might be traveling to our fair city and would be willing to guest preach are encouraged to participate. I know we will be blessed.

Our email address is: mercystreetchurch@gmail.com Let us know if you’d like to participate.

God loves people. We seek to be people hungry to live out the way of Jesus. People working to live by the power of the resurrection now. It's about people with ideas and dreams, and it's about the raw mystery that brings us together to make a church.

We honor as our spiritual heritage those attempts that began in America early in the 19th century to restore the life and spirit of Christianity as envisioned by Jesus and his apostles. So we are a community of believers - disciples of Jesus - who have confessed their faith in him and have been baptized into him. And we take seriously His teachings and their implications for the world in which we live.

Please pray for this new work. To God be the glory! Amen.

"But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen." --The Apostle Peter, 2 Peter 3:18.


Latest News

LEROY'S ESSAY 'A NEW GENDER-INCLUSIVE CHURCH OF CHRIST
I like the way they describe their services: “men and women participate equally,” and the way they welcome speakers -- “preachers who happen to be women.” That must be a “first” in Churches of Christ history![more]

SEEKING PREACHERS.... WHO HAPPEN TO BE WOMEN
Seeking Women Preachers![more]

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP
We gather together for worship in the upper room at the home of Stan & Lorrie Baldwin... Our worship time together will include praise and prayer in word and song. We’ll participate in the Lord’s Supper and hear a good word proclaimed from scripture. Women and men will equally participate in our service. [more]

Sermon Circle

THE SURPRISE - AND OFFENSE - OF GRACE
“I am gracious to those to whom I am gracious and I take pity on those on whom I take pity” (Exodus 32:19, New Jerusalem). [more]

COLONY OF HEAVEN
“For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.”[more]

ARE OUR METHODS BECOMING THE MESSAGE?
“If anyone would be my disciple, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23).[more]

  • In What Way is the Bible About Us? -- Sunday, October 11, 2009
  • You Get More Than You Give -- Sunday, October 04, 2009
  • Surprised By Grace -- Sunday, September 27, 2009

    Look Out Point

    SANCTA INDIFFERENTIA
    Any attempt to replace the personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.[more]

    MERCY: TWICE BLESSED
    “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.”[more]

    GOD SEND US PREACHERS
    God send us preachers brash and true; Make them to serve your holy word. Your summons shall by them be heard. In sermons bold, we have heard you. [more]

  • Our Sister Phoebe Deaconess of Cenchrea -- Friday, May 01, 2009
  • Women May Preach -- Wednesday, April 01, 2009
  • Being the Church - Reflecting on Identity -- Monday, November 05, 2007

    Intersections

    HUMAN EXPECTATION VS. DIVINE REALITY
    He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand.[more]

    THE UNIVERSAL ONE BODY
    "We who are many are one body, for all of us share that one bread" [1 Cor. 10:17]. That "bread" is Jesus. [more]

    AUSTIN FORUM ON CHRISTIAN UNITY
    In essentials, unity; In opinions, liberty; In all things, love.[more]

    U-Turn

    WE CANNOT BE A FIRST CENTURY CHURCH...
    When theologian Karl Barth was asked about how to identify a true church, he said that a true church is where the power of Christ is present in the lives of the people...[more]

    "VEILS" IN 1 CORINTHIANS 11:2-16
    "I am currently studying 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 and its command that women remain veiled at public worship but that men appear unveiled. Do you have any thoughts on that?"[more]

    ENCOURAGE WOMEN TO USE THEIR GIFTS
    If the Church of Christ is to have an effective, truthful and faithful witness going into the future, it must make some changes in reference to the place of women in the church...[more]

    Bulletin Boulevard

    SEND US PREACHERS
    God send us preachers brash and true; Make them to serve your holy word. Your summons shall by them be heard. In sermons bold, we have heard you...[more]

    LISTEN UP!
    Listen! – Mark 4:3 [more]

    FAITH IN ACTION
    Lord, give us faith that shows itself clearly by our actions. Help us to see people the way you do...[more]

  • Seeking Preachers, who may be women... -- Sunday, July 26, 2009
  • Clean House -- Sunday, July 19, 2009
  • A New Beginning -- Sunday, July 12, 2009

    Mercy Street Moments

    AFFIRMING PROGRESS
    Instead, we can affirm and encourage people in the most Christian of all ways: 'I thank God for you, brother or sister...[more]

    IN THREE DIMENSIONS
    An integrated Christian is growing in faith, life, and mission as a three-dimensional responsibility.[more]

    ETERNAL LIFE
    To be 'in Christ' is Paul's characteristic description of the Christian. But John uses it too...[more]

  • Dead and Risen -- Thursday, April 26, 2007
  • Living the New Life -- Friday, February 02, 2007
  • Unfailing Love -- Thursday, February 01, 2007



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