Center Church

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All churches must understand, love, and identify with their local community and social setting, and yet at the same time be able and willing to critique and challenge it.

All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

When fruitfulness is our criterion for evaluation, we are held accountable but not crushed by the expectation that a certain number of lives will be changed dramatically under our ministry.

Legalism says that we have to live a holy, good life in order to be saved. Antinomianism says that because we are saved, we don’t have to live a holy, good life.