Midtown Fellowship: Downtown

We’re back this week to talk about the sermon from this week.

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Columbia “You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:

Blūm Coffee

Resources mentioned:

You Are Here sermon series (Downtown | Two Notch | Lexington)

Kickoff Weekend 2019

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

We’re back this week with Pastor Michael to talk more about this week’s sermon.

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Columbia “You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:

Boca Grande

Resources mentioned:

Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin by Cornelius Plantinga

Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ by Dallas Willard

Quotes mentioned:

“Self-denial” must never be confused with self-rejection; nor is it to be thought of as a painful and strenuous act, perhaps repeated from time to time against great internal resistance. It is, rather, an overall, settled condition of life in the kingdom of God, better described as “death to self.” In this and in this alone lies the key to the soul’s restoration. Christian spiritual formation rests on this indispensable foundation of death to self and cannot proceed except insofar as that foundation is being firmly laid and sustained. - Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

We’re back this week with Pastor Brandon to talk more about this week’s sermon.

Questions? Comments? Favorite local spot to check out? Send us an email at [email protected]

Audio engineering by Andrew Miles

Columbia "You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:

Al-Amir on Main

Resources Mentioned:

People of the Lie by M Scott Peck, M.D.

The Unseen Realm by Michael Heiser

Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

"Spiritual Beings" video series by the Bible Project

This week we’re joined by Midweek-staple Pastor Michael Bailey from Midtown Lexington.

Columbia "You’d Rather Be Here” Local Spotlight:

Publico

Resources Mentioned:

The World, The Flesh, and The Devil sermon series resources - Downtown, Lexington, Two Notch

Quote Mentioned:

Almost 100 years ago, an Anglican bishop, J.C. Ryle wrote these words:

“Let me talk to you about true Christianity. There’s a vast quantity of religion current in the world that is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the real thing which was called Christianity 1800 years ago...There are thousands of men and women who go to chapels and churches every Sunday and call themselves Christians. Their names are in the baptismal register. They are reckoned Christians while they live. They are married with a Christian marriage service. They mean to be buried as Christians when they die. But you never see any ‘fight’ about their religion! Of spiritual strife, and exertion, and conflict, and self-denial, and watching, and warring they know literally nothing at all. ...The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict or fight. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a scanty round of formal religious services once or even twice a week, but the great spiritual warfare … its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests … of all this they appear to know nothing at all.

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