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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: Mike and Meredith are happy to announce the birth of Scarlet Isis Baldwin Tift. She was born in New Haven, CT, Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 1:15 am. 7 lbs. 10 oz., 20 inches long. She is beautiful! We praise God that Scarlet, Mom, Dad and Marisa are doing well. News: The Abilene Reporter News published an article about the Mercy Street Church of Christ in the Friday, 2-26-10 edition. The article is entitled, "Women in the church: moving toward equality." It was written by Abilene Reporter Sarah Stirman. Go to the following link to read the article: http://www.reporternews.com/news/2010/feb/25/women-in-the-church-moving-toward-equality/ 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. 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 ABILENE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT MERCY STREET CHURCH "Women in the church: moving toward equality."[more] BALDWIN'S TO LECTURE AT ACU Stan and Lorrie Baldwin have been invited to lecture at Abilene Christian Univ. Monday, 3-1-10. [more] CIVILIZING THE ECONOMY April conference, Civilizing the Economy: A New Way of Understanding Business Enterprise? [more] Sermon Circle THE DOOR TO ANOTHER WORLD "He walked with God."[more] MOUNTAINTOP GLIMPSES OF PERFECT LOVE "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."[more] IF GOD IS FOR US If God is for us, who can be against us? — Romans 8:31[more] Look Out Point WOMEN MAY PREACH Jesus charged his disciples, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation" (Mk 16:15). Does "go ye" mean "go me," as we have generally insisted, or does "go ye" mean "go men"...[more] MORE ON NUMBERS “It’s easy to get people in the building,” the theology professor opined. “Just put a sign out front announcing, ‘Free Beer!’” [more] THE THREE SIGNS OF A MISERABLE JOB Miserable jobs share three things: Anonymity, Irrelevance and Immeasurement.[more] Intersections OUR SISTER PHOEBE DEACONESS OF CENCHREA "I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea; that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and that you help her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself has also been a helper of many, and of myself as well" [Romans 16:1-2, NASB].[more] WHAT ARE THE LIMITS OF WOMEN IN MINISTRY, IF ANY? My study of this issue in recent decades has persuaded me that there should be no limits at all on a woman's ministry in the church.[more] IT'S ABOUT GOD Too often those demands are identified as an upbeat worship service, a clean nursery, a big parking lot...[more] U-Turn WOMEN TEACHING MEN Someone writes, "Paul said he didn't allow a woman to teach a man (1 Tim. 2:12). What do you think Paul meant?"[more] THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE ...return to being a movement of transformed people rather than a connection of loyalists sustaining a structure. [more] FORGIVENESS A popular talk show host is known for fixating on what forgiveness can do for the forgiver—turning forgiveness from an act of love to an act of self-appeasement...[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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