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GracePointe 201: Jesus

This week in GracePointe 201 we’re exploring the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith—a framework that helps us hold both the grounded, historical reality of Jesus as a person of the past, and the living, abiding experience of Jesus for so many today. For many Christians Jesus is the great exception--somehow able to be like us but infinitely better than us. This Jesus is to be worshipped, but we all know deep down he can not be truly imitated or followed. What if there is another way to see Jesus, not as the exception, but as the rule? What if Jesus represents our potential, an invitation to become everything we can become? 

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GracePointe 201: God

This week at GracePointe we continued our GracePointe 201 series by talking about God. One of our convictions at GracePointe is that "God is a Mystery to be explored, not a doctrine to be espoused." What does that mean, practically? Join us at we explore that question and more!

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GracePointe 201: The Bible

Several years ago our Founding Pastor, Stan Mitchell, led us through a conversation called “GracePointe 101” that explored our growing understanding of the Bible, God, Jesus, and Church. Beginning this weekend we will build on that work and continue the conversation. because our understanding of the faith journey is that it is always unfinished, unfolding, and in-progress.

This week we began with the Bible. What is the Bible? Does it still matter for us today? How can we approach it with both reverence and reason? Listen in as Josh leads us in that conversation!

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The Afterlife

The weekend Founding Pastor Stan Mitchell lead us to think about how we might begin to dream about and reimagine an important facet of Christian spirituality—the afterlife—through the lens of Progressive Christianity. If you are wrestling with questions about the afterlife, this is a must listen!

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Grab Bag: Kat Armas

We are so excited to welcome a brilliant and insightful writer and speaker to GracePointe this weekend! Kat Armas is not only an important voice, but she’s also a fellow GPer! You won’t want to miss what she shared in this sermon! 

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Grab Bag: The Beatitudes

Our next installment of our summer series, “Grab Bag,” draws our attention to a series of “blessings” Jesus pronounces in the Gospel of Matthew. Known as “The Beatitudes,” these blessings are announced to people in unlikely situations - we don’t often feel blessed when mourning, hungry, or persecuted, for example. What is Jesus doing with these blessings? What do they teach us about Jesus’s vision for the world? Josh explores this and more in this week's message!

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Pride Sunday

It's time for PRIDE! Each year during Nashville Pride we take some time to reflect on the importance of Pride - what is means and why it matters for a church to celebrate it together. This year we were so fortunate to hear from a panel of our own GPers about what Pride means to them and their journey. This is a powerful conversation that you won't want to miss!

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Grab Bag: Is Jesus Our Savior?

This week we continued our “Grab Bag” series by turning to an important question: Is Jesus our savior? To uncover that we explored the meaning of salvation in Scripture, and the wider culture of Roman Imperial theology. The teaching concludes with a helpful conversation between Josh Scott and Stan Mitchell about the meanings of salvation in Progressive Christianity.

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