Starting Point at Cedar Springs...Winter, 2014

Join us for Starting Point this Winter! It's safe place for you to explore faith and experience a community of honest, open people...Who probably have lots of the same questions, doubts, or wonderings that you do! We would love to have you join us. Next gathering begins January 19th, 2014.

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Christianity...Just for the sake of "harnessing the young and giving comfort to the old?"

"Young people are told from birth to be good and do good. They live with rules, grades and expectations. Those who are successful in keeping those rules and meeting those expectations often find grace to be difficult to accept. To them, grace can seem like a covering for evil. They usually think that when the grace talk is over, the behavior is going to be bad, and Christian young people are usually most careful in the area of distinctive and different behavior.

"Christian young people who have made different moral choices than the majority may truly not see the wonder of grace. They haven't sinned enough. Or to be more exact, they don't see the outrage of their own sins clearly. The foundation of morality their parents and teachers built in their lives may make it difficult to see their own sinfulness honestly. The culture war focus that rages around Christian young people puts unusual emphasis on making choices and "being righteous." It's not at the exclusion of the Gospel, but it's often at the expense of the Gospel." -Michael Spencer

What do you think? Do you think the concept of God's reckless grace just allows for bad behavior? Is religion just something that, as one band feared might be something simply to "Harness the young and give some comfort to the old?"* Have you been "ruled out" by churches/religions in the past? Is faith in Jesus that...or is it something completely different? These are the types of things we grapple with at Starting Point...We invite you to join us!

*From the band Caedman's Call; song-"Prove Me Wrong"

Ever troubled by the fact that...

...this kind of logic is what seems to mark certain Christians?



Us too...

That's why we have Starting Point. So we can actually discuss honestly, openly, humbly and logically about issues of faith, Jesus, the Bible and life in general. Come join us...For the discussion and the laugther.

Classic Question : Different Type of Answer : All the Difference

A different take on the "classic" end-of-life question by Brennan Manning. Give a viewing to the whole thing (only 4 minutes long), and see if it connects with you in some way. This video is a beautiful, vital invitation to ongoing discussion if there ever was one...We'd love to be part of the conversation with you.

We Invite you to "Find your place in the story."

By grappling with our deepest, most mysterious and troubling quesitons we might begin to recognize how our personal stories connect to one another's and the larger story of life, of God. Answers to the big, existential questions of life are almost never obvious or easy; in some cases we may never get them. Grappling with the questions as we journey with small communities of others though, might offer, in and of itself, some the most important "answers" we could hope for. We invite you to join us.

Questions That Deserve More Than Answers

Join us for the discussion...