Constructing Beautiful Faith
Perhaps posts announcing departures from the Christian faith fill your timeline, you get sent YouTube videos of influencers detailing their faith deconstruction, or a friend or family member who seemed to follow Jesus so vibrantly is now in the midst of a crisis of faith.
What should we make of our moment? And how should we respond?
This sermon series presents the tools for 'good deconstruction', recognizing it can be the road toward reconstructing a more mature, robust faith that grapples honestly with the deepest questions of life; and, most of all, focuses on Jesus and CONSTRUCTING BEAUTIFUL FAITH.
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After Hours | Sexuality
This After Hours explores the intersection of sexuality and spirituality. We will take an honest look at whether the Christian vision of sexuality is misogynistic, regressive, and bigoted + explore how to live Christianly and engage winsomely on these issues in this moment.
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Purity Culture | Agassiz & Lake Errock Campuses | Constructing Beautiful Faith
Mark 7:6-9
A significant failure of many churches is poor and/or unbiblical teaching regarding sexuality which has caused many to deconstruct their faith and leave the church. But maybe our greatest failing is that we have missed the larger message about our sexuality – that we are made for intimacy, created for covenant, and are pursued by a Bridegroom who awakens our love, redeems our sin, and invites us into eternal union with Him. This sermon will seek to address how the church has failed in this area, and then point hearers to a biblical, beautiful vision of sexuality.
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Purity Culture | Harrison Campus | Constructing Beautiful Faith
Mark 7:8-9
The purity culture of the 90’s embraced a variety of distorted teachings on sexuality. Many were hurt and misguided in the process, as pastors and youth leaders overemphasized sexual purity over intimacy with Christ. This sermon seeks to offer clarifying biblical truth on human sexuality while pointing to the only One that can ultimately satisfy.
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Purity Culture | Chilliwack Campus | Constructing Beautiful Faith
Mark 7:8-9
A particular approach to communicating about sex and purity failed a generation of evangelical teens by telling some truths or shades of truth but not communicating the whole beautiful truth.
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Church Hurt | Promontory Campus | Constructing Beautiful Faith
1 Corinthians 1:1-11
Church can be a place where people get hurt...and yet, it shouldn't be! What can be done to protect those who might be harmed, and how can hurt people find healing?
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Church Hurt | Harrison & Lake Errock Campuses | Constructing Beautiful Faith
Luke 4:16-30
The church is the bride of Christ, meant to be His hands and feet until His glorious return. Yet, the local church often gets things wrong and causes more hurt than healing. Where is Jesus in these messes? How do we respond to the spiritual abuses within a body that bears Christ’s holy name? This sermon defines church hurt, discovers Jesus’ empathy and rediscovers the glorious vision the church is meant to portray.
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Church Hurt | Agassiz Campus | Constructing Beautiful Faith
Luke 4:16-30
To be hurt by someone within the church can be extremely difficult. A fellow congregant, leader or pastor can say or do something that causes harm. Should we be surprised this happens? If it does, should we walk away from the church and faith or should we lean into the love of Jesus who provides truth and healing.
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Church Hurt | Chilliwack Campus | Constructing Beautiful Faith
Luke 4:16-30
Church hurt is one of those things that should never happen, but sadly is inevitable in anychurch. If we live in a fallen world, with other sinful people, and an enemy whose primaryobjective is to destroy what Jesus loves most, the church, how can it not be? But if the church,the Bride of Christ, keep her heart fixed on Jesus, the church can become the dearest place onearth to us.
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Jesus & Doubt | Chilliwack Campus | Constructing Beautiful Faith
John 20:24-29
In some Christian circles asking questions and expressing doubts is not tolerated. But Jesus was merciful to doubters and we are invited to follow in His footsteps. The story of Thomas is instructive in how to approach our own faith doubts and those who doubt.
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Jesus & Doubt | Promontory Campus | Constructing Beautiful Faith
John 20:24-31
Jesus deals with many people who have doubts about who he is and what he has done, most notably his own disciple Thomas. Yet throughout his ministry Jesus responds in a variety of ways in order to meet them in their needs. As a church we are called to model this merciful approach to doubt as we build a genuine faith in what Jesus has done.
