Important Takeaways:
- Megachurch Won’t Mention ‘Blood of Jesus’ on Easter Sunday Invitations
- A North Carolina megachurch says they will not mention words like Calvary, resurrection of phrases like “blood of Jesus” to promote Easter Sunday services.
- “I’m not going to say the word ‘Calvary,’ I’m not going to say the word ‘resurrection.’ I’m not going to say the ‘blood of Jesus.’ Right? I’m not going to say any of these words that makes someone feel like an outsider,” said Nikki Shearer, the digital content creator for Elevation Church. “This is really an important guiding principle.”
- Elevation Church is pastored by Steven Furtick and has more than 25,000 members attending at multiple locations across the state.
- Why not just be honest and upfront with people? Let them know what Easter is really about and why it’s important for them to hear the message?
- I mean at some point Elevation Church does present the Gospel message to their unchurched visitors, right? At some point the non-Christians are told about the resurrection of Christ, right? And at some point, the visitors are made aware that the “blood of Jesus” was the price that was paid for our sins, right?
- If not, the Elevation Church Easter service is nothing more than a self-help sermon…
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Rev 6:6 NAS And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”
Important Takeaways:
- Denver’s Potter’s House Closes and Sells Megachurch Site, Goes Permanently Virtual Due to Pandemic
- The church’s pastor, Touré Roberts, announced “COVID-19 forced every church in America to rethink how to best serve their parishioners and the broader community,” Roberts told the newspaper. “Due to the inability to gather and the economic instability of the pandemic, our church, like many other churches in the nation, experienced declining donations.”
- “We decided that the best way forward would be to sell the property, continue our online offering that had proven a successful alternative and maintain our hands-on community outreach operations, which includes our food bank that feeds thousands of families per year,” the pastor told the Post.
- As CBN News reported in November, more than 4,000 churches closed in the U.S. in 2020 alone. Over that same time period, over 20,000 pastors left the ministry and 50 percent of current pastors say they would leave the ministry if they had another way of making a living, according to The Barna Group
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The Seattle area megachurch founded by Mark Driscoll is disbanding at the end of the year.
The announcement last Friday sent shockwaves through the church’s multiple locations as they have only a few weeks to decide if they want to become an independent church, merge with another congregation or simply disappear.
The “Mars Hill” ministry itself will also cease to exist. They will fire all of their existing staff.
The church has been struggling through transition after the resignation of founding pastor Mark Driscoll.
Several former Mars Hill leaders expressed optimism that this news could end up bringing benefit to the Seattle area.
“God makes good out of bad: New local ‘Mars Hill’ churches: Redemption Church, Redeemer Church, A Seattle Church, Downtown Cornerstone, Reach; all these seeds have fallen from the dying Mars Hill tree. God is very much alive in Seattle,” former Mars Hill deacon Mike O’Neil wrote.
