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Crosspoint Church of Asheville
“Crosspoint Church exists to bring every person to a place of intersection with the soul satisfying beauty of Jesus Christ, through authentic worship and witness to the power of His kingdom.”
Thursday, March 10, 2011
What is Red Like Blood?
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Monday, February 21, 2011
The Model and Mystery of George Washington
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I know that on the Presidents' Day we celebrate the great leaders that our country has known and well we should. Our nation has received a great amount of common grace through their lives and at times exceptional leadership and vision to make and keep our country one of the greatest expressions of freedom in human history.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
The Radicalized Disciple
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Justified and Free
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Friday, March 19, 2010
"The Jesus Gospel"
"One thing to be observed in the spirituality we see all around us is this: our advances in religion/self made spirituality, put us FURTHER from Christ, not closer. No matter what we call ourselves on the sign out front, vain is the search for spirituality, personal enrichment or community connection without Jesus…
From generation to generation since His appearing the names have changed, but the pursuit remains the same. Circumcision has become "self-actualization", and the Pharisee may call himself a “divine mystic” of a "new spirituality". We like Saul want to be our own savior and when we do, we scorn the exclusive rights of the one Sovereign Lord Jesus Christ."
(excerpt from, "The Jesus Gospel"; the full sermon may be heard @ www.crosspointasheville.org)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
"Who do you say that I am?"
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Author and journalist, Lee Strobel concludes in his book, “The case for the real Jesus”; “When you wed the American independent streak with a postmodern skepticism toward institutions, you set the stage for what theologians call “syncretism”, which is the blending of elements from various faiths into a new form of spirituality.” Living in a place like Asheville I feel like someone turned the “syncretism blender” on high for 20 years. It seems we have lost so much of the Jesus who really lived that for some it doesn’t even matter if Jesus existed at all, the “idea of Jesus is what is important”. Everything can be “blended” with Jesus if he is what we want him to be.
At Crosspoint, Jesus is a core value because we embrace the experience of Jesus in our lives, (because he is real and relevant for us), and we equally embrace the objective truth about his life and work for us. We want to challenge the ignorance about our Savior and we can only do that when we can clearly tell others more than merely cleverly edited portions of his words and deeds. We tell the hard things about Jesus that are intended to offend the “spiritually syncretistic” and shake their trust in their ideas about Jesus. The Jews wanted Jesus to be merely “a prophet” but when he became a threat to their precisely blended system of law keeping and divine-right-racial-elitism, they had enough, and crucified him, thinking they were doing the will of God.
But our message is not all about confrontation, Jesus also allows us to open the door wide to the skeptics and say, “Come and see the Jesus that the Bible revels…in fact, come close!” Because the closer you examine Him and the more you press his words and deeds, the more compelling his claims become. In fact, Crosspoint exists, to bring every person to intersect with the soul satisfying beauty of Jesus Christ by authentic worship and witness to the power of His kingdom.
Here is the "crosspoint" for each individual, “Who do you say that I am?” Stepping off into the answer to that question sincerely will take you to places you did not think you could go intellectually, emotionally or volitionally. Peter answered for the apostles in a way that was not only experiential, but objectively true for all generations and for all time, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And upon this rock of truth, Jesus is building His church.