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I saw on FB that The Bridge CoG (Patrick Ballington) in N. Ga. is now a Strategic Partner of North Point Community Church and the North Point Network of Churches.My question is, is The Bridge still CoG.Patrick said they are considering having additional services during the week with Andy Stanley preaching Recorded Sermons @ www.pastorwiley.com

I sent Patrick a pm on FB and asked if they were still CoG and he replied, yes very much CoG Recorded Sermons @ www.pastorwiley.com

Thanks, Larry, for coming straight to me with you question. It means a lot that you would do so.The Bridge remains and will remain a COG church. North Point is supportive of that and it would have been a 'deal breaker' if they weren't. We agreed to.partner with them because of a similar mission and model of ministry that makes reaching unchurched with the message of Christ the highest priority and creating environments and gatherings that unsaved and unchurched people want to attend. We also share a common value to honor our church history and spiritual hertiage but looking for new ways to do and be the church to a generation and culture that has little or no previois church experience or understanding.

I truly like this. We are the Body of Christ, right? Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/

What about the Baptism of The Holy Spirit and Andy's beliefs? I was thinking I read where he does not believe in the second filling of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues

4golf I understand and appreciate what you are saying. However one can be saved without speaking in tongues, but one cannot be saved without Christ. I challenge the readers here to focus on helping people to know Christ. Then we can teach them about the HS Recorded Sermons @ www.pastorwiley.com

I think it's obvious that North Point accepted this group of believers to follow their model regardless of any theological differences for the cause of Christ.

the problem is, people always say this that once the people are saved, then we will teach them about the Holy Spirit but they NEVER DO!What we always wind up with and I've been fighting this mindset for 35 years, is a bunch of people who have a salvation mindset and not much more. Will it get them to heaven? Yes. And for that I am truly grateful and not critical but who are we then? Does our Pentecostal distinctive mean anything? Why are we Pentecostal or maybe a better question is should we remain Pentecostal? When the supernatural is pushed out of our churches we lose faith in the God of creation. If God is not supernatural, or He just used to be once upon a time, is He still God? The Book of Acts details how the supernatural became a preaching point or confirmed what had been preached. When that no longer is a part of the Gospel then we risk becoming no different than any other spiritual mindset. How can you preach that Jesus rose from the dead if you don't also preach God is still manifesting the supernatural in the lives of believers?I just returned from 2weeks of ministry in England. One of the churches I worked with is an AG church but they are so pc that I was encouraged to not preach a message that used the Syro-Phonecian/samaritan woman's request to Jesus to heal her daughter who was possessed by a demon. Why? Because the pastor didn't want to offend sophisticated church members with the idea that we believe in something as superstitious as demons. And yet, I disobeyed him and the people were thrilled and hungry for more of the message (not about demons but about the power of God). ANd so it goes.

John 17:21

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