Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | Sexuality | www.thedoor.org

David finishes the series on sexuality, calling us to be aware of the ways we've bent into the things of this earth to try to find the life that comes only from God. The cure is to stand up straight into who it is God has called us to be which is better than we've ever imagined!

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | Sexuality | www.thedoor.org

Paul’s words in 1 Thess 4:3-4, is an invitation but worded quite strongly, that “this is God’s will for you, your sanctification… that you know how to possess your own body in holiness and honor.” What does it mean to “possess my body in honor”? And how has “living in Samaria” obscured and scattered how I even think about God’s desires for wholeness in this area of sexuality?

Teaching Pastor: Peggy Lang, Prayer Ministries Pastor | Novembering | www.thedoor.org

This Sunday is our Novembering service when, as a community, we gather to remember those who are no longer among us, and to invite God into our places of grief and mourning. The context for our remembering is the Communion Table, where we come to God, and we come together, not trying to do this journey of loss and sorrow alone.

Teaching Pastor: Peter Kapsner, Lead Staff Pastor | Sexuality | www.thedoor.org

Peter talks about the disconnect we all often have, between what we believe to be true and how we actually live things out.

Pastors: Peter and Hallie Kapsner, Lead Staff Pastors | All Church Gatherings | www.thedoor.org

Teaching Pastor: Peter Kapsner, Lead Staff Pastor | Sexuality | www.thedoor.org

Peter starts the series of sexuality with the assumption that most (probably all) of us have been deeply affected by what we ourselves have done, and what’s been done to us. He invites us to be FOR one another, which can happen only if we’re anchored in a different reality, in the unconditional love of God: “The start and center of all spiritual formation, is God’s love spoken deeply into the soul, and that can come only from God Himself.”

Teaching Pastor: Kent Carlson, Special Guest Speaker | www.thedoor.org

Kent Carlson, co-author of Renovation of the Church, spoke about what the church really is and what it’s for. Kent shared out of his own journey from “church as destination” to church as an incarnational way of living where people who are being authentically changed into the image of Christ can bring hope and real change to this broken and warring world as we express a vibrant, genuine, and beautiful, real-life experience of following Jesus individually and as a community.

Teaching Pastors: Peter Kapsner, Interim Lead Staf Pastor & Tom Johnson, Missional Life Pastor | www.thedoor.org

Teaching Pastor: Anne-Marie Finsaas, Pastor of Formational Life | www.thedoor.org

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | www.thedoor.org