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Boston: On a mission
By adamg on Fri, 03/11/2005 - 12:37pm
Apparently, Boston is deeply in need of salvation and the kids from Harding University are hardly the only ones hoping to spread the Gospel among us non-believers.
A member of Restoration House Ministries went on a 908-mile bike ride to raise funds to plant a church for the "the six hundred thousand people who live there to hear about our Redeemer:"
... Would you please keep the city of Boston and the church plant in your prayers? Satan has a strong grip in Boston and the need for consistent prayer is necessary. ...
The Rev. Steven Hathaway might agree - he is trying to plant a church in Boston:
In Metropolitan Boston there are literally thousands of people who do not have the opportunity to sit under the teachings of the Word of God.
Be sure to watch his video, which discusses the "spirtual slavery which has gripped the people of greater Boston" and how we've become "spiritually, a barren wasteland," because there is only one fundamentialist church for every 200,000 residents. The video concludes with a listing of those barren towns without a fundamentalist church, such as Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, Somerville, Arlington, Lexington, Revere and Salem.
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Christlove Coming to Hub Summer 2006
Back in 1620 Myles Standish and his motley crew of puritans landed at Plymouth Rock. In 2002 Mitt Romney brought some Latter Day Saints into the State House here in Boston. In 2006 a group of students now attending Harding University in Arkansas hope to found a new church in...
Oh, Lord!
> With the need for a New Testament church in the city
As opposed to all those worn-out Old Testament churches now littering the city?
If you plant a new church here, will it be seedy?
As for Baptist churches in Somerville, there's one just outside Davis Square and another in East Somerville. Cambridge has the Old Cambridge Baptist Church just outside Harvard Square, and First Baptist in Central Square. I bet most of the other towns have at least one.
Keep Your Good News To Yourself
I expressed my disdain for religious salesmen here, but there are apparently more of these evangelizing douchebags headed for us than I thought.
There are plenty PLENTY of pe
There are plenty PLENTY of people who work in Urban Ministries for Grace Chapel in Lexington, and the students from Gordon College, Gordon Conwell, and Eastern Nazarene, as well as dozens of local churches who should feel a little insulted in the assessment of Boston as a souless, hopeless, un-christ centered city. They work incredibly hard in urban ministries, homeless ministries and other ways, quietly. Humbly. No flashy salesmen, no big powerpoint presentations, just doing it. I'm not sure how I feel about these deep southies assessing our town in such a way... I am happy to be a christian surrounded by many people who feel and think differently than I do. It is one of the things I love about this area.
Arkansas. Pfth. Don't they have people to feed there?
Yyyyyyep...
Christine, you must be talking about people who've actually READ the Bible in one of its more true forms and who've heeded the parts asking us to do God's word quietly and in the service of one another, not loudly and in people's faces and for show.
375 Years and Counting
Universal Hub and others have been tracking the announcements by a few religious groups of their intentions to plant churches in the Boston area.