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James G. Merritt is the senior pastor of Cross Pointe Church.He was born and raised in Oakwood, Georgia and surrendered his life to Christ as a 9-year-old boy. At age 21, he committed to full-time Christian ministry, and went on to pastor five churches.
The church was founded in 1986 by Kenneth Copeland as Eagle Mountain Church. In 1993, the church was renamed to Eagle Mountain International Church and in 1998, following rapid growth, moved to its current location in Fort Worth, Texas, on a 33-acre property that was once the Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake (MCAS Eagle Mountain Lake), a United States Marine Corps air station. [1]
Cross Point and variants may refer to: Places. Cross Point (Lowell, Massachusetts), an office tower in the United States; Cross Point, a subdivision in Owings ...
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) [note 1] is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States and Canada. [2] [3] The denomination started with the Restoration Movement during the Second Great Awakening, first existing during the 19th century as a loose association of churches working toward Christian unity.
An earlier survey conducted in 2012 found that 92 percent of evangelicals agree it is a Christian's duty to help those in poverty and 45 percent attend a church which has a fund or scheme that helps people in immediate need, and 42 percent go to a church that supports or runs a foodbank. 63 percent believe in tithing, and so give around 10 ...
Following Hayford's appointment, the church grew significantly. By 1974, the sanctuary had to be remodeled to increase capacity, and in 1981 the current sanctuary at 14300 Sherman Way was built. In 1987, as the church continued to outgrow its facilities, the church initiated the purchase of 14800 Sherman Way from the First Baptist Church of Van ...
The Church of the East did not accept the third and following ecumenical councils and is still separate today by its successors (Assyrian Church of the East). In terms of prosperity and cultural life, the Byzantine Empire was one of the peaks in Christian history and Christian civilization , [ 53 ] and Constantinople remained the leading city ...
The history of Christianity and homosexuality has been much debated. [2] The Hebrew Bible and its traditional interpretations in Judaism and Christianity have historically affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality; [3] [4] throughout the majority of Christian history, most Christian theologians and denominations have considered homosexual behavior ...