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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: 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 PASSING THE PLATE Tithing is practiced by few. The median annual giving for an American Christian is about $200...[more] 'CROSS' When Christians are asked to say something profound about ourselves, to say something about the nature of God, this is what we say – “cross.”[more] FAITH, FAMILY, FRIENDS These three words go far in summarizing what life is about, and they remind us that our earthly pilgrimage is all about relationships.[more] Look Out Point CRUCIFORM PREACHING: INGLORIOUS TALK A cruciform faith in the God who reigns from a cross requires a peculiar way of preaching that is foolishness to the world.[more] WOMEN PASTORS A subscriber in the Southwest U.S. asks whether biblically a church should ordain women as pastors (or elders).[more] 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] Intersections WEAK CLERGY, WATERED DOWN CHRISTIANITY Lacking the former crutches and accolades of the culture, we now must get our courage strictly from the gospel itself.[more] WOMEN TEACHING MEN What do you think Paul meant?"[more] 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] U-Turn LEADING CHANGE AND TRANSITION Now we are required to be leaders of an institution that needs change.[more] SHE FEELS THE CALL "Have you been faithful with what you have been given?"[more] 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] 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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