Archive for the ‘baptism’ Category

Grace! & 3 baptisms at The PO

Posted: October 15, 2012 by mikehanafee in acts, baptism, Church Planting, Discipleship Groups, new facility, preaching, Restore Church, the gospel, Thriving in the City, Uncategorized, worship
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Theological liberals distort the gospel by subtraction and theological legalists distort the gospel by addition. The early church was threatened by the former and, as a result, took decisive action in what is known as the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15. In addition to learning the true essence of grace from this historic event we are also reminded that grace both frees us to strategically surrender our freedoms and turns us away from that which it saves us from, sin. You can check out the message below. (We’ll improve our camera angle next time;)  We had the joy of celebrating this grace through our first baptisms at The Post Office. It was beautiful to hear three heart-thumping stories of grace! I’ve got the first testimony/baptism posted and will try to get the other two up later.

13 of us also had the privilege of attending the 2nd Annual Thriving in the City Conference in Philadelphia at Epiphany Fellowship last Friday & Saturday. Wow! Blogpost to come by one of our Restore peeps.

Friday night the Bo-Ed Dgroup will host a cider & donut bonfire for our neighborhood. All are invited.                     7PM 1258 Longfellow 48202.

Streetside Baptisms Video

Posted: September 7, 2012 by mikehanafee in baptism, Gordon Park, Restore Church, testimonies, the gospel, Uncategorized
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Watch these videos of last Sunday’s street side baptisms & be encouraged by these beautiful testimonies of God’s saving grace. Please pray for our upcoming baptismal service, our building search, & wisdom & direction as we look to launch more Dgroups.

Sunday we will gather again at 11AM at Gordon Park for outdoor worship. We will be looking at Acts 10 – 11:18 as we continue to interact for a second week in our Dgroups on the issues of ethnicity & racism in the body of Christ as we seek to be a Rev 7:9-10 church.

Outdoor baptisms at GP & 56 pics

Posted: September 4, 2012 by mikehanafee in acts, baptism, election, Family, Friends, Gordon Park, preaching, Restore Church, the gospel, Uncategorized
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Never hand the mic to a preacher. I wonder if that’s what the synagogue leaders in Antioch of Pisidia thought after they asked Paul if he had anything to say! From his impromptu sermon we looked at 4 great truths about Christianity, all of which are centered on Jesus. Along the way we also learned a few things about being on mission in a religious context & some ways Christianity is different than man-made religion. Acts 13 was a great segueway to our outdoor baptismal service yesterday at Gordon Park. We’ll be doing another baptismal service in a few weeks. In the meanwhile we’ll see if we can get some video of the testimonies posted. Finally, please pray for a huge meeting Clete & I have tonight (Tuesday) regarding a great interim indoor worship facility in the heart of our area.

The Jesus of Revelation, Gordon Park

Posted: August 30, 2012 by mikehanafee in baptism, Church Planting, Discipleship Groups, Gordon Park, Restore Church, the gospel, Vision, worship
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One of our biggest needs – as individuals & as a church – is to have a big view of Jesus. Yet everything around us conspires to shrink Him into a pre 1960′s flannel-graph hippie pacifist. That’s hardly the picture we see in Revelation. He is a glorious king, present leader, victorious lamb, conquering warrior, perfect judge, & all-satisfying God.

 

Here are 3 things your can pray about:

1. For Sunday’s outdoor baptismal service at Gordon Park. (Actually with some peeps gone for labor day weekend we are going to have a second baptismal service in a few weeks, not great scheduling on our part;)

2. For a great interim indoor worship facility that is closer to being secured (big meeting next Tuesday night) & another building we may be able to purchase as a long-term facility. Both these buildings are right in our area!

3. For our planning in multiplying our 2 Dgroups into 4.

84 second sermon/worship jam from Sunday

Posted: August 3, 2012 by mikehanafee in baptism, preaching, Restore Church, the gospel, worship
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Step into last weekend’s worship service at Gordon Park for a moment via this video put together by my friend Befkadu. Thanks Bef for surprising us with this, and doing such a great job, especially considering you had me to work with!

It’s been a great week with the BUMP & FBT mission teams in our inaugural week long sports camp/vbs – the first of many more to come! Friday evening we close with a cookout for parents. Please pray we have a great finish!

Sunday we will be back out at Gordon Park (Rosa Parks & Clairmount, 48206) for worship at 11AM. Thanks to the EFCA Great Lakes District we are purchasing a blower to help keep the park clean.

We have 4 or 5 baptisms to do & would love to do them at Gordon Park. If anyone knows of a portable baptismal, even a carnival dunk tank, please let us know. We are really hoping to do these baptism outdoors (I think there may even be biblical precedent for this;) at the park.