There are many churches seeking to engage the culture through political activism. Such arrogance, they say explains, in part, many of the injustices and wars of the modern era. If you had an account on the old church directory at churches.thegospelcoalition.org you will need to make a new account. This one true and living God is infinitely perfect both in his love and in his holiness.

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To eliminate the propositional nature of biblical truth seriously weakens our ability to hold, defend, and explain the gospel. Regarding sex, the church should avoid both the secular societys idolization of sex and traditional societys fear of it. Baptism and the Lords Supper We believe that baptism and the Lords Supper are ordained by the Lord Jesus himself. We affirm that truth is correspondence to reality. We affirm that truth is conveyed by Scripture. The Gospel Coalition supports the church by providing resources that are trusted and timely, winsome and wise, and centered on the gospel of Jesus Christ. The church is the corporate dwelling place of Gods Spirit, and the continuing witness to God in the world. The gospel changes our relationship with God from one of hostility or slavish compliance to one of intimacy and joy. It is a community which so loves and cares practically for its members that biblical chastity makes sense. It therefore inevitably establishes a new community of human life together under God. In this perspective, the gospel appears as God, sin, Christ, faith. Thus the gospel creates a human community radically different from any society around it. In addition to all this, gospelcentered churches will have a bias toward church planting as one of the most effective means of evangelism there is. The Kingdom of God We believe that those who have been saved by the grace of God through union with Christ by faith and through regeneration by the Holy Spirit enter the kingdom of God and delight in the blessings of the new covenant: the forgiveness of sins, the inward transformation that awakens a desire to glorify, trust, and obey God, and the prospect of the glory yet to be revealed. Countercultural community. Creation of Humanity We believe that God created human beings, male and female, in his own image. On the other hand, the older evangelicalism (though not all of it) tended to read across the Bible. It brings out the means of salvation, namely the substitutionary work of Christ and our responsibility to embrace it by faith. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases on Amazon.com. While TGC does its best to validate each entry, TGC cannot guarantee the actual health of these churches as they are self-regulated. It is a Bible oriented church that tends to transform lives of people by offering them inspiring Biblical teaching. The Bible is to be believed, as Gods instruction, in all that it teaches; obeyed, as Gods command, in all that it requires; and trusted, as Gods pledge, in all that it promises. It exists in the genres of narrative, metaphor, and poetry which are not exhaustively distillable into doctrinal propositions, yet they convey Gods will and mind to us so as to change us into his likeness. This reality compels us to stand with others who are stirred by the conviction that the mercy of God in Jesus Christ is our only hope of eternal salvation. To worship and pray in a peaceful way, you and your loved ones can think of paying a visit to the Mountain Christian Church. The biblical revelation is not just to be known, but to be lived (Deut 29:29). In corporate worship Gods people receive a special lifetransforming sight of the worth and beauty of God, and then give back to God suitable expressions of his worth. The Spirit of God not only converts individuals (e.g., John 16:8) but also renews and cultivates the face of the earth (e.g., Gen 1:2; Psalm 104:30).

God put humanity in the garden to cultivate the material world for his own glory and for the flourishing of nature and the human community. The gospel, however, humbles and affirms us at the same time, since, in Christ, each of us is simultaneously just, and a sinner still. Regarding power, it is visibly committed to powersharing and relationshipbuilding among races, classes, and generations that are alienated outside of the Body of Christ. Because of the attractiveness of its community and the humility of its people, a gospelcentered church should find people in its midst who are exploring and trying to understand Christianity. Please make sure all fields are filled out. Therefore Christians glorify God not only through the ministry of the Word, but also through their vocations of agriculture, art, business, government, scholarshipall for Gods glory and the furtherance of the public good. Adam and Eve belonged to the created order that God himself declared to be very good, serving as Gods agents to care for, manage, and govern creation, living in holy and devoted fellowship with their Maker. The emphasis is on Christianity as a way of life to the loss of a bloodbought status in Christ received through personal faith. We see a family of true disciples growing deeper in their knowledge of Him, growing richer in their satisfaction in Him, and living life together in His design. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both Jew and Gentile to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. The church is distinguished by her gospel message, her sacred ordinances, her discipline, her great mission, and, above all, by her love for God, and by her mem- bers love for one another and for the world. We do not believe that in best practice these two ways of reading the Bible are at all contradictory, even though today, many pit them against each other. We must be a counterculture for the common good. We hope to draw highly secular and postmodern people, as well as reaching religious and traditional people. Inasmuch as Christ was given by the Father for us, and his obedience and punishment were accepted in place of our own, freely and not for anything in us, this justification is solely of free grace, in order that both the exact justice and the rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners. The man Jesus, the promised Messiah of Israel, was conceived through the miraculous agency of the Holy Spirit, and was born of the virgin Mary. To read across the whole Bible is to collect its declarations, summons, promises, and truthclaims into categories of thought (e.g., theology, Christology, eschatology) and arrive at a coherent understanding of what it teaches summarily (e.g., Luke 24:4647). VISION But if we seek direct power and social control, we will, ironically, be assimilated into the very idolatries of wealth, status, and power we seek to change. This good news is biblical (his death and resurrection are according to the Scriptures), theological and salvific (Christ died for our sins, to reconcile us to God), historical (if the saving events did not happen, our faith is worthless, we are still in our sins, and we are to be pitied more than all others), apostolic (the message was entrusted to and transmitted by the apostles, who were witnesses of these saving events), and intensely personal (where it is received, believed, and held firmly, individual persons are saved). 3. We believe that by his incarnation, life, death, resurrection, and ascension, Jesus Christ acted as our representative and substitute. We have become deeply concerned about some movements within traditional evangelicalism that seem to be diminishing the churchs life and leading us away from our historic beliefs and practices. contact us. Each church should seek to reflect the diversity of its local geographical community, both in the congregation at large and in its leadership. But we believe there are also penultimate steps to take. CONCLUSION There you will find a "Claim Listing" button. 3. [and] was raised). In love God commands and implores all people to repent and believe, having set his saving love on those he has chosen and having ordained Christ to be their Redeemer. There are many churches with a radical commitment to the poor and marginalized. But we have a vision for a church that equips its people to think out the implications of the gospel on how we do carpentry, plumbing, dataentry, nursing, art, business, government, journalism, entertainment, and scholarship. The statements of Scripture are true, precisely because they are Gods statements, and they correspond to reality even though our knowledge of those truths (and even our ability to verify them to others) is always necessarily incomplete. 1. At the same time, and in the same congregations, there will be engagement with the social structures of ordinary people, and cultural engagement with art, business, scholarship, and government. We are neither overly optimistic nor pessimistic about our cultural influence, for we know that, as we walk in the steps of the One who laid down his life for his opponents, we will receive persecution even while having social impact (1 Peter 2:12). This universal church is manifest in local churches of which Christ is the only Head; thus each local church is, in fact, the church, the household of God, the assembly of the living God, and the pillar and foundation of the truth. I. As we confess in CS(1), [God] providentially brings about his eternal good purposes to redeem a people for himself and restore his fallen creation, to the praise of his glorious grace. How this relationship to culture shapes us. For the people of all age groups, the Mountain Christian Church conducts Sunday school which aims to host constructive discussions and offer Bible teaching sessions. Reading along the whole Bible. 3. Good works constitute indispensable evidence of saving grace.

1. The gospel moves people to holiness and service out of grateful joy for grace, and out of love of the glory of God for who he is in himself. It brings out the purpose of salvation, namely, a renewed creation. Bringing Christian joy, hope, and truth to embodiment in the arts is also part of this work. 5. III. Christian churches must work for justice and peace in their neighborhoods through service even as they call individuals to conversion and the new birth. Because the gospel calls us to holiness, the people of God live in loving bonds of mutual accountability and discipline. Our desire is to serve the church we love by inviting all our brothers and sisters to join us in an effort to renew the contemporary church in the ancient gospel of Christ so that we truly speak and live for him in a way that clearly communicates to our age. Too many Christians have learned to seal off their faithbeliefs from the way they work in their vocation. It is a wonderful non-denominational church that welcomes all whole heartedly. We have a God who is mighty in all His ways; who does the amazing work of growing us in obedience and faith.

Especially for youth and women, this church has two different ministries. 4. The Holy Spirit is himself the down payment of the promised inheritance, and in this age indwells, guides, instructs, equips, revives, and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service. If we seek service rather than power, we may have significant cultural impact. On that day the church will be presented faultless before God by the obedience, suffering and triumph of Christ, all sin purged and its wretched effects forever banished. The gospel replaces superiority toward the poor with mercy and compassion. Ironically, this approach can be very legalistic. Jesus did not treat us that way. In Gods wise purposes, men and women are not simply interchangeable, but rather they complement each other in mutually enriching ways. We must work for the eternal and common good and show our neighbors we love them sacrificially whether they believe as we do or not. So we maintain, with what we hope is appropriate humility, the principle of sola Scriptura. The good news of the Bible is not only individual forgiveness but the renewal of the whole creation. Sent by the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ, and, as the other Paraclete, is present with and in believers. We desire to advance along the Kings highway, always aiming to provide gospel advocacy, encouragement, and education so that current- and next-generation church leaders are better equipped to fuel their ministries with principles and practices that glorify the Savior and do good to those for whom he shed his lifes blood. What could lead to a growing movement of gospelcentered churches? Truth, then, is correspondence between our entire lives and Gods heart, words and actions, through the mediation of the Word and Spirit. We want to be a church that not only gives support to individual Christians in their personal walks with God, but one that also shapes them into the alternative human society God creates by his Word and Spirit.