This Weekend @ Connexus | June 13th, 2010

Posted on 11. Jun, 2010 by carey in Connexus, Featured Article, New Series, Vision and Purpose | 1 Comment

We’re looking forward to Sunday! Come join us and bring a friend! Here’s whats happening: Barrie Campus Not Actually Jesus | Part Three: Sin Has Sizes Most of us know people who think their sins are no big deal and don’t need to be taken seriously. At the same time we also know people who [...]

Hey Orillia – What Do You Think?

Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by carey in Connexus, Featured Article, Leadership Community, New Series, Vision and Purpose | No Comments

We’re so excited to have kicked off our new series, Not Actually Jesus in Orillia yesterday (and started Part 2 in Barrie).  We hope this is a series that clarifies things for those who follow Jesus and those who are still investigating.  The "to do" of Part One of the series is this:  review what [...]

What We Believe: About the Church

Posted on 05. Jun, 2010 by carey in Connexus, Leadership Community, New Series, Uncategorized, Vision and Purpose | No Comments

So we’re wrapping up our week long series of posts about what we believe with a final statement about what we, at Connexus, believe about the church: We believe that the church is the body of Christ, of which Jesus Christ is the head. The members of the church are those who have trusted by [...]

This Weekend @ Connexus | June 6th, 2010

Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by carey in Featured Article, New Series, Uncategorized | No Comments

So we are into full gear with our new series "Not Actually Jesus". It’s a perfect series to invite friends to, as it’s all about what Christianity is actually about. But the series is also for Christians, because sometimes we cling to beliefs that are, well, not actually Jesus. Here’s what I believe: the more [...]

What We Believe: About the Christian Life

Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by carey in Connexus, Featured Article, Leadership Community, New Series, Uncategorized, Vision and Purpose | 2 Comments

So we launched our new series, Not Actually Jesus, by saying that truth matters.  Life goes better when we cooperate with the truth, and even though sincerity is important, you can be sincerely wrong. So maybe you’re thinking about becoming a Christian, or you are a Christian and you wonder what the Christian life is [...]

What We Believe About Salvation

Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by carey in Connexus, Featured Article, New Series, Uncategorized, Vision and Purpose | 3 Comments

 This one’s huge, friends.  Many people today think all paths are equal, or that there are many paths to God.  Here’s what we believe: We believe that the blood of Jesus Christ, shed on the cross, provides the sole basis for the forgiveness of sin. Therefore, salvation occurs only when people place their faith in [...]

What We Believe: About Humanity

Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by carey in Connexus, Featured Article, New Series, Vision and Purpose | 2 Comments

This week as we callibrate our own opinions and beliefs about the Christian faith against what many Christians hold true about Christianity, here’s what we believe about humanity: We believe that mankind was created in the image of God to have fellowship with Him but became alienated in that relationship through sinful disobedience. As a [...]

What We Believe: About God

Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by carey in Connexus, Featured Article, Leadership Community, New Series | No Comments

If truth matters in spiritual things, what do we actually believe about God?  Here’s what we at Connexus believe the Bible teaches about God. It’s not everything we believe about God, of course, but it does describe how we believe the scripture shows how God s: We believe in one God who exists in three [...]

What We Believe: The Bible

Posted on 31. May, 2010 by carey in Connexus, Featured Article, New Series, Orillia, Vision and Purpose | 3 Comments

It was a great day yesterday at our Barrie campus as we kicked off the new series, Not Actually Jesus (it launches this coming Sunday, June 6th at our Orillia campus!)  As promised, we’re starting a discussion this week about what we believe.  This should be fun, because the discussion was already ramping up in the foyer [...]

One Question Everyone Can Ask

Posted on 26. May, 2010 by carey in Connexus, Featured Article, New Series, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Over a year ago at Connexus, we made a key decision.  We decided to stop all external forms of ‘advertising’.  No more flyers in the mail.  We canceled our weekly radio show.  In fact, we stripped back to the reality that the only evidence of our presence in the community midweek was going to be [...]