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| 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. 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.
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 EL VIAJE To be a Christian, a follower of Jesus, is to be on a journey. Each one of us is here this afternoon on a Journey with Jesus...[more] CONSUMERS OR DISCIPLES? The point is not membership. The church does not have clients, members, or consumers of goods and services. The point is discipleship. [more] JESUS TOUCHED LEPERS Jesus felt compassion for him, and he responded in kind, "I am willing. Be cleansed."[more] Look Out Point FORMED BY THE POWER OF THE WORD Jesus’ point against the Sadducees is that the power of God is able to create an entirely new reality that transcends all human categories.”[more] AWAKE IN ADVENT We identify with the deep yearning of Isaiah 64. The encroaching December dark, the subdued quality of Advent hymns, this morning's headlines all testify to a waiting, unfulfilled world...[more] TRADITIONALISTS AT THE TABLE ...too many of us have seemingly forgotten (if indeed we ever knew) the purpose for our gathering together at the Table of our Lord...[more] Intersections THE LOVE/LIKE CONUNDRUM We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to like one another. Thomas Merton {1915-1968} No Man Is An Island[more] AMBIGUOUS GOOD NEWS AT CHRISTMAS So much for the biblical scholars, priests, theologians, and government planners, Luke seems to say...[more] PRAISE HIM WITH DANCING Dancing among the ancient Jews, who lived, worked and worshipped under the old covenant, was neither complex nor regulated. It was primarily an expression of the heart, not a mandate of law.[more] U-Turn MALICIOUS MENACE UNMASKED Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness. Permanence means paralysis and death. Only in movement, with all its pain, is there life.[more] THE HOLY KISS OF LOVE: ARE WE KEEPING THIS COMMAND? Romans 16:16 -- "Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you." [more] DARE WE REJOICE? If the only theology we have to preach is of the pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps variety, then we are doomed...[more] Bulletin Boulevard IN THE DEEPEST GORGE ...we ask your mighty comfort for all who grieve...[more] ADVENT 2009 ... the great second century theologian Irenaeus famously observed that: “the glory of God is man fully alive.”[more] IF THIS WERE A REAL CHURCH... Sometimes we find ourselves in a painful, conflicted and difficult mess not because we’re not faithful to Jesus but because we are following Jesus![more] 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] |
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