I saw this some time ago and was deeply impressed. Frankly, I think a lot of church advertisement lacks biblical quality. This is the “Grace Community Church” in San Antonio. I don’t know anything about the church. It is not, I believe, Southern Baptist, but it does use the London Baptist Confession as a doctrinal basis for church life.
Their website has this video that is exactly what church ads should be. Its not about how hip, happening and cool the people of the church are. In fact, it is a confession of their sinfulness. It is about the saving and transforming power of Christ. I LOVE it!
We are planning a church plant soon. I’d like to use something like this as the basis of our advertising.
Good stuff. Honest, under-stuffed with fluff. I’d check them out if I were in San Antonio.
All the different ethnic groups shown with a common purpose attracts my interest. I’ll bet the music is terrific.
“All the different ethnic groups shown with a common purpose attracts my interest”
GOOD !
Amazing!
This is church and Church as it should be!
From their church website:
Tim was previously an elder at Community Baptist Church in Elmendorf, Texas before being sent out with eleven other members to form Southside Grace Church, which would later be called Grace Community Church. Tim was the first pastor of Grace Community Church. His desire for the church is:
O Lord, my passion is that we would be an aggressively God-loving, Bible saturated, Spirit-filled, racially diverse church that would seek relentlessly to know and proclaim the excellencies of Christ for the glory of God and the joy of all people. Help us keep our first love, help us strive to obey the great commission to go into all the world boldly preaching the Gospel and making disciples, and help us to search out the needy, the orphans and the widows as Christ Himself instructed us and showed us by His perfect life.
Wow.
Wow!!! Saturated with grace!
Yep! Saturated with GOSPEL!
Here’s another good one ;^)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlyvLzIcTBc&sns=em
And it’s Reformed Baptist. Remember that Many Southern Baptists don’t believe Calvinistic Churches can grow!
Oh, no he ditn’t!
FYI, for reasons I don’t completely understand, our spam filter is still taking some of your comments. I just went in and got some out. I’m checking it pretty regularly, but its still putting some of you in the penalty box and I really do not know why. Plus, a bunch of comments by regular commenters went into moderation (ones I did not put there).
I’m monitoring things, but ask for patience.
I love it. Amen and amen.
That pastor is a wonderful man of God who preaches the truth. I’ve known about that church and their ministry site, http://illbehonest.com for several years. They post some SOLID stuff! Love this video!
Tony set things up so we link with Facebook and this video has been shared nearly 40 times by tonight on various Facebook sites.
I had several friends that shared it after I tweeted it to FB as well