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This week we wrapped up our October series, “Haunted: Things That Go Bump in the Bible.” Our final installment focused on damnation, the idea that some people-- those who haven't prayed the right prayer or held the right beliefs-- will spend eternity in hell. Does Scripture say that? Would a loving God do that? What do we make of the references to hell in the Bible?⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/giveLike us on Facebook at   / gracepointetn  Follow us on Instagram at   / gracepointetn

Last Sunday we continued our October series, “Haunted: Things That Go Bump in the Bible.” This week we focused our attention on perhaps the scariest concept in both the Bible and life: Death. What does the Bible say about death? What does it mean for the New Testament to claim that "death has been defeated" in the story of Jesus? Join us as we wrestle with these questions together! ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us 🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar 🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give Like us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/gracepointetn Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/gracepointetn

This we we continued our October series, “Haunted: Things That Go Bump in the Bible.” Last week, we explored the figure of Satan. This Sunday, we turned to a related, and perhaps even more mysterious subject: demons. The New Testament is filled with stories of demons, unclean spirits, and Jesus confronting the forces of evil. But what are we supposed to make of these accounts? What did people in the ancient world mean when they talked about demons? And what might these stories reveal about who Jesus was and what he was doing? Join us as we wrestle with these questions and explore what these strange and unsettling stories might have to teach us today! ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us 🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar 🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give Like us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/gracepointetn Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/gracepointetn

We started a new, spooky series this week! Each week of October our “Haunted” series will explore some of the things that go bump in the Bible: The Devil, demons, death, and damnation (hell).This week we kicked things off by talking about the Devil/Satan. Who or what is the Devil? Where do our ideas about Satan come from? What does any of this have to do with our shoes? Join us as we explore these questions and more! ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us 🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar 🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give Like us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/gracepointetn Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/gracepointetn

This week community member and theologian Kat Armas concluded our "Disturbing Red Letters" series by looking at some truly head-scratching words from Jesus. In Mark 9:43-48, Jesus says: If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell., And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell, where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched. What do we make of these jarring words? Join us as Kat explores these disturbing red letters! ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us 🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar 🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give Like us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/gracepointetn Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/gracepointetn

This week Josh brought us back into our "Disturbing Red Letters" series by looking at Jesus's words about "the way being narrow and the path hard that lead to life." Jesus went on to say "there are few who find it." That doesn't sound promising, considering there are billions of people on the planet, does it? How can we know if we are on this narrow way? Do we even want to be? Listen in as we explore these questions and more together!  ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us 🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar 🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give Like us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/gracepointetn Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/gracepointetn

How do we speak truth in love when the political landscape feels like a battlefield? This Sunday Pastor Josh Scott was joined by Doug Pagitt, Executive Director of Vote Common Good, for a conversation that offered a practical vision designed to help you engage in open, honest political conversations with the people you care about most--without sacrificing your values, destroying your relationships, or losing your peace of mind. ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us 🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar 🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give Like us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/gracepointetn Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/gracepointetn

This Sunday we looked at more of Jesus's Disturbing Red Letters, with special guest and friend of GracePointe, Colby Martin!Colby focused on a passage from Luke 17, in which Jesus tells his disciples that "a mustard seed-sized faith" is enough to do anything--it can even command a mulberry tree to be uprooted and transplanted into the sea. You won't want to miss Colby's take on these Red Letters! ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give

In Matthew 18, when asked about the number of times we should forgive someone who’s wronged us, Jesus’s answer is quite shocking. He told his disciple Peter that we are challenged to forgive, not once or even seven times, but seventy seven times! These Disturbing Red Letters feel almost impossible to practice. Isn’t this kind of forgiveness just condoning the action of those who wronged us? Doesn’t it just give them a free pass? Or, is it possible that Jesus is making connections to a larger story, one that is as ancient as humanity?In this week’s sermon Pastor Josh Scott unpacks the context of these Disturbing Red Letters, and you won’t want to miss what’s there! ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us 🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar 🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give Like us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/gracepointetn Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/gracepointetn

We're looking at more of Jesus's Disturbing Red Letters !  This week's challenging words come from Luke 18. After encountering a rich ruler who refused to give his wealth to the poor and follow Jesus, Jesus responded by saying, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” But what exactly does Jesus mean? Is he saying that rich people are going to miss heaven? How much money does someone have to have before they're considered “rich”? And is Jesus speaking only to his audience back then—or is he speaking to us today? Listen in as Lead Pastor Josh Scott explores these questions and more! ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us 🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar 🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give Like us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/gracepointetn Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/gracepointetn

This week we continued our new series called Disturbing Red Letters, which focuses on the words of Jesus that can be experienced as exclusive, harsh, and downright impossible. This week we looked at two passages in which Jesus says that, if we want to follow him, we must hate our families and even skip their funerals. Yep, you read that right! What do we do with these difficult words? What was Jesus even thinking? Join us as Lead Pastor Josh Scott examines these disturbing words! ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us 🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar 🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give Like us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/gracepointetn Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/gracepointetn

We began a new series this week called, Disturbing Red Letters, which focuses on the words of Jesus that can be experienced as exclusive, harsh, and downright impossible. We are diving into the deep end right off the bat by talking about John 14:6, where Jesus says, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." What does Jesus mean? Is this about going to heaven when we die, or something else? Can we understand this passage differently than many of us were taught? We think so! ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us 🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar 🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give Like us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/gracepointetn Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/gracepointetn

This week Lead Pastor Josh Scott was joined in conversation by Melody Winderweedle. Melody is a pastor in Chattanooga, and they will discuss a provocative story from the Gospels of Mark and Matthew that depicts Jesus as learning something new and changing his mind as a result. Many interpreters have struggled with this story, but Melody and Josh find it fascinating and see it as an invitation to all of us to follow in Jesus's footsteps.  ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us 🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar 🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give Like us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/gracepointetn Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/gracepointetn

This Sunday Lead Pastor Josh Scott was joined in conversation by Brad Davis, Co-Chair of From Below: Rising Together for Coalfield Justice. From Below is part of the West Virginia Faith Collective, a partnership of faith-based organizations who are pursuing social justice through community organizing and advocacy. This was an eye-opening conversation that connected to so much of what we've been exploring in the Jesus story--God's dream of a world of justice and peace, and all the ways protecting wealth and power can distort and delay that vision. ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give

The Jesus we meet in the pages of the Gospels is a compassionate, generous prophet who announced the here and nowness of the Kingdom of God. He healed, fed, and included those on the margins, and taught his followers to do the same. How, then, did this Jesus morph into the Jesus who demonizes the poor, idolizes guns, and celebrates Christian Nationalism? Can we trace that metamorphosis? Can we recover the radical, historical Jesus while living in an empire that continually co-opts and distorts his message? In this two week mini-series Josh offered teachings that speak to these questions and more.  ⛪️ To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit https://gracepointe.net/about-us 🗣 For weekly event and ways to get plugged in, visit https://gracepointe.net/calendar 🙌 To become a sustaining member of the GracePointe community, visit https://gracepointe.net/give Like us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/gracepointetn Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/gracepointetn