Matt will be coming to San Jose this weekend.
At the recent Dallas Boot Camp, Matt Chandler took a few minutes before his session to explain why he's a part of the Acts 29 Network.
Matt will speak at the San Jose boot camp on June 3-4 – please join us to hear him, Mark Driscoll, D.A. Carson, Scott Thomas and Jeff Vanderstelt talk about the mission of Christians everywhere, and the role of the church in making disciples of all nations.
Registration for San Jose Boot Camp closes at midnight tonight – get registered now!
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"[The next day] I got about seven emails, basically telling me how unbelievably disappointed they were in The Village Church, that a man would be smoking his cigarette on the porch as they came in on the Lord's Day... you see what we're doing down there?"
Matt Chandler preaches the gospel in the center of the evangelical world, and faces self-righteous fundamentalist "older brothers" as a majority demographic. What does it take to preach the gospel to these people? How do we call people towards the gospel rather than moralism?
Here he illustrates the problem with a story of an ex-con visiting on Easter and smoking cigarettes on the steps of The Village Church.
(4 minutes, download clip or full sermon here; notes are here)
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Barry Keldie (31), former student pastor at The Village Church in Highlands Village, TX (Dallas metro) and founder and former pastor of Providence Church in Frisco, TX, died Friday morning, March 5. He had long suffered from insomnia and had developed an addiction to prescription sleeping pills. In an effort to overcome the addiction and still get the necessary sleep, Barry had begun to take Tylenol PM. Doctors suspect that as a side effect of the medication, he became disoriented and consumed more than the recommended dosage. Confirmed by the toxicology reports, Barry’s death was a result of an accidental overdose of Tylenol PM.
He is survived by his wife, Charity, and their two children, Will, age 3, and Layla, age 1.
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