You may be asking why we encourage an annual fast at our church. Our history is that we first started doing it 14 years ago. And for the last five years we have attempted to make our fast more focused on the work God would have us do as a church. Throughout these past five […]
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“How does it feel to be the first generation to not have a purpose?” These words were the equivalent of a slap across the face to me. They were coming out of the TV, out of the mouth of an actor playing Cleve Jones, a lion of the TLGBQIA movement who was a contemporary of
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The Easter Sunrise Service at the Church Without Walls in Atlanta’s Candler Park at 7:06am on Sunday, April 16th caps the 2017 Holy Week and Lenten observance for Gentle Spirit Christian Church, which includes:
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It’s 2017, and if anything is clear at this point, it’s that we absolutely must change the way we conduct ourselves. In other words, we need some powerful collective resolutions – yes, resolutions – to help us change the way things are and the way they might be. But groups of people don’t really make
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My name is Ken. I was raised conservative Church of God and I have been taught my whole life that homosexuality is a sin. I began my coming out journey about five years ago when I was fifteen. Now I am in a committed relationship with a guy who was raised the same way I
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The first Sunday of Advent is November 27th. Here’s everything you need to know about celebrating the season with Gentle Spirit Christian Church. Tree & Wreath SaleEvery year starting the day after Thanksgiving, there are quality trees and homemade wreaths for sale on the First Christian Church of Decatur lawn through the second Saturday in
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Rev. Paul M. Turner and the congregation of Atlanta’s Gentle Spirit Christian Church offer a prayer for those affected by the tragedies in Dallas, Minnesota, Baton Rouge and Orlando.
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I am gay, and 20 years old… I honestly can say that I am not happy. I don’t feel like I’m doing well at being a Christian. I try to pray but I am inconsistent, and sometimes I have no clue where I will end up. I feel like God is in some way absent
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In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King Jr.) In the days following the Orlando massacre, it’s become painfully clear to me that there are people out there who really don’t get it. They really don’t. They don’t get that LGBT people like
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