Sermon Tone Analysis

The Central Church of Christ will welcome everyone to Christ’s table.

What does that mean?

The invitation to the table is an invitation to share the gospel.

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Early Gnostic Christians believed that at baptism the believer transcended from this “world into the Jordan and from the blindness of the world into the sight of God, from the carnal into the spiritual, from the physical into the angelic, from the created into the Pleroma, from the world into the Aeon, from the servitudes into sonship, from entanglements into one another … We were brought from seminal bodies into bodies with a perfect form.

Indeed I entered by way of example the remnant for which the Christ rescued us in the fellowship of his Spirit.

And he brought us forth who are in him, and from now on the souls will become perfect spirits.”

The Gnostics believed all flesh to be corrupt.

Baptism was the act whereby a person left behind sin and began to leave behind flesh to become pure spirit.

John claims that the Gnostics had gotten a huge part of the Gospel wrong.

John claims that we come to know Christ by water, blood, and Spirit.

Where do we see the water, blood, and the Spirit today?

Sharing Communion

Sharing Baptism

Sharing the Word

We are driven to his cross, raised to live again in his resurrection, and led by his Spirit.

We are Passion Driven, Forward Thinking, Spirit Led.

The Central Church of Christ will welcome everyone to Christ’s table.