Posts Categorized: Church Plant

I Have A Dream For Our Church

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Recently I have been dreaming about what our young church could eventually look like. Here are my thoughts. I dream of a church: Where we grow primarily through conversions; not where we grow because Christians are being shuffled around from another church to ours. Where the make-up of the people is from many races, social situations and… Read more »

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Baptism – June 3, 2012

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Here are a few short videos of our first baptism at The Bridge.  Brian gives a short teaching on baptism, and Angela and Kevin share their testimonies of how they came to have new life in Jesus Christ.  These were the first two converts after a year of sowing gospel seed!

 

New Idea for Door to Door Evangelism

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I’m sure that the most threatening word in the English language for Christians is the word evangelism! We all know that Jesus has commanded us to preach the gospel to everyone and to make disciples of all the nations, but we are scared spitless to actually do it.  In this video I show how we at The Bridge have been meeting people and sharing the gospel with them by going door to door and using a Belief Survey. Perhaps you might want to give it a try. It’s really not as hard as it might seem at first!

Serving Our Neighbors On Halloween

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Grilling up some hot dogs to serve our Anatolia neighbors on HalloweenThis year we decided to do something a little different on Halloween.  In the past, on Halloween, we would either leave our house to go to a church-related “Harvest Party”, or turn off the lights and lock the doors, so we wouldn’t have to deal with the “holiday”.  However, this year, we were convicted that we were squandering a golden opportunity to redeem this pagan event and show love to our neighbors.  After all, this is the one night of the year, when all our neighbors actually come to us!

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