by Church @ 434 | Apr 7, 2021 | End of the World as We Know It, R.I.O.T.
This CORE series serves as the bookend of where we have been.
We as a church have had to look at ways to reimagine ministry in a world of turbulent elections, civil unrest, pandemics, school closures, shutdowns, face coverings, social distancing, and a cancel culture.
Last year we began a very interesting journey in our CORE studies. As we elected new leaders we offered – Is Jesus a Democrat, Independent, or Republican?
Then we followed it up with 3 studies on the End Times…The final session of the end times trilogy was a stand-alone session focusing on America in the End Times….
And that brings us to this study. This serves as the bookend to the set of studies we have done in CORE and builds upon what we have looked at in both our Mid-Week studies and our Celebration Worship studies. This new series is called RIOT
Watercooler conversations have shifted in our culture….
It doesn’t matter where you go or what you do – there in your face is a constant barrage of what is happening in the world around us. It creates fear, angst, concern about the things going on and is born out of a need to be able to get some type of handle on them, trying to understand them, and most importantly trying to figure out how to navigate them.
The questions that emerge – tend to always come back to the big one – “what do I do as a follower of Christ?”
There is no shortage of commentators, opinions, and emotional manipulators that will gripe, groan, grovel, or grimace at the way things are – but again…we keep coming back to what do we do? How do we do it? And how do we know it is the right thing to do?
The church has to be willing to step out, step up, and step into the conversation. Because, let’s be honest about the world we live in. There is always someone willing to drive the narrative, so do you want to be driven or do you want to drive? Get ready for a real, rational, relational, and revolutionary way to navigate the culture in a way that is transformational – RIOT in CORE @ 434.
by Church @ 434 | Apr 4, 2021 | Cancel Culture
Happy Easter! This day is a day where we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. In spite of the best efforts of the culture to cancel Jesus, they did not. Not only did they fail to cancel Him the most amazing thing happened, Jesus accomplished something incredible on that first Easter morning. He canceled the very things that culture fears the most. This morning, we revisit the day that a dead man stopped being dead, and His life changes everything. This is a Cancel Culture Easter celebration at The Church @ 434 – we are so glad you are here and a part of it!
by Church @ 434 | Mar 28, 2021 | Cancel Culture
Cancel Culture is a phrase that describes something happening in the world around us. When something is canceled, it is nulled, ended, voided, done, over, no longer wanted … you get the idea… But today that same idea is also applied to people, that sense of cancel is the basic idea behind the slang meaning of canceling a person. When a person is canceled, they are no longer supported, valued, or considered to exist.
Usually if someone is said to be canceled is because they have done something to offend someone else or taken a position that is not popular with the mainstream of thought.
It might surprise you to find that although the phrase seems fresh, the idea of cancel culture is not new. As a matter of fact, it has been happening for thousands of years.
As we move into the Easter season, we begin this series with a look back in time where the things we discover impact our lives here and now. The first century culture did their best to cancel Jesus. It didn’t’ work then, it doesn’t work now, and that is great news for each of us.
by Church @ 434 | Mar 24, 2021 | End of the World as We Know It, Signs 3
You can go back and find the first two portions of this CORE study called SIGNS & SIGNS 2, it is available on the website or the app
Because of the questions, requests, and demand…we are expanding this study into the first Mid-Week rotation of this year
Join us for the conversation and discussion as we study Revelation, specifically some of the End Times signs
by Church @ 434 | Mar 24, 2021 | CORE Bible Study Series
You can go back and find the first two portions of this CORE study called SIGNS & SIGNS 2, it is available on the website or the app
Because of the questions, requests, and demand…we are expanding this study into the first Mid-Week rotation of this year
Join us for the conversation and discussion as we study Revelation, specifically some of the End Times signs
by Church @ 434 | Mar 21, 2021 | Gotta Go
The Gotta Go series has been all about moving forward in our adventure of faith. In this conclusion to the series we are reminded again of the “WHAT’S NEXT” in our lives and we can move from where we are today into where God wants us to be tomorrow.
