"Women go to church; men go to football games. Laymen attend church activities because a wife, mother, or girlfriend has pressured them...If a man goes to church, he goes because a woman has wheedled him into what he would normally consider unmanly behavior. But if he goes voluntarily, he suffers suspicions about his masculinity...A devastating criticism of Christianity is many men see it not only as irrelevant, but as effeminate...As one man put it, ‘life is a football game, with ...
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Tomorrow night at 7:00pm we're going to be talking about Romance and Relationships, A biblical discussion on dating and courting. If you've attended that last couple of weeks, we've changed the format a bit and have held a more dialogical preaching method which means there is far more interaction and Q and A on the spot.
This certianly makes is more challenging, but we believe that your questions are a a significant part of the message. ...
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If you're a regular visitor to our site or a brand new guest, we want to welcome you to become more immersed in our site.
One of the many benefits of the new design is the ability to add comments and thoughts below a variety of posts from blogs, sermons, stories and cultural articles. This is intended to increase the social aspect of our online community. Also, if you haven't noticed, there is a member login at the very bottom the page which allows you to ...
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In relation to God’s Word, Kaleo seeks to be a Gospel-centered church. A Gospel-Centered Church is committed to:
- Reading the whole Bible as the Gospel (Luke 24 hermeneutic)
- Preaching and teaching the Gospel to believers, not just unbelievers
- Preaching and teaching the Gospel in every sermon and every lesson
- Seeing the Gospel as the “milk” and “meat” of God’s Word
- Studying theology/doctrine to better understand the Gospel, not simply for more facts
- Viewing the world, the church, and ourselves through the lens of the Gospel
In relation to God’s church (ourselves), Kaleo seeks to be a grace-renewal church. A Grace-Renewal Church is committed to:
- Being renewed by grace every moment
- Becoming “new” people, not just “nice” people
- Believing the Gospel can change anyone, including ourselves
- Motivating others with grace, not guilt
- Solving all problems (personal, familial, church, social) with the Gospel
- Learning how the Gospel changes us and others (transformation vs. reformation)
- Loving others through the Gospel
- Community that seeks to “gospel” one another in love
In relation to God’s world, Kaleo seeks to be a missional church. A Missional Church is committed to:
- Living in mission “for” the city in which God has sovereignly placed us
- Learning to speak the language of our culture to make the Gospel as clear as possible
- Listening to people and their ’stories’
- Being a community that is counter-cultural rather than merely a Christian sub-culture
- Working in such a way that we live out the Gospel in our work and recreation
- Demonstrating the unity of church in our city
- Showing off the beauty of the Gospel by helping others in need through acts of mercy and generosity
- Seeing every believer in Christ as a missionary
- Understanding the flow of history is the activity of our missional
God at work restoring all things to himself by His Gospel (Luke 24)
- Structuring every ministry with a missionl texture towards the world for the sake of the lost
