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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New ANC-er here. We’re enjoying the church and the sermons. Is there something to beware of other than personalities? I know Jason worked for Joel Osteen but seems different. He /Tray don’t seem predatory. Overall it seems like the church is learning, growing and unfolding…..Becoming affirming, more inclusive overall. Is there something our family is missing?[/quote]

Hi Jason!

It’s felt like Jason’s weekly choose your own faith journey.  We just couldn’t bear it any longer and needed more, it feels bad to say it, like Christianity in our church?  They were always making apologies for old doctrines to the point that it just felt like a philosophy club.  I could see ANC becoming a universalist church in a few years.  Ny husband and I are definitely more liberal or progressive in our faith but we still wanted to go to a Christian church.  Now we’re happy Anglicans.

The people were largely nice and welcome, though.

The youth group was sort of weak.  My kids were teens and they were confused by a lot of it.

The Hatmakers weren’t ever around.[/quote]

Yes! Choose your own faith is spot on.

It’s sad, actually, because the Hatmakers got that building for FREE by switching denominations to be Methodist and pushing out an established (but small and old) congregation. Now they use the church as a music venue side hustle and spout off that Jesus isn’t necessarily the son of God.

There are really good church plants in Austin and I keep waiting for the UMC to get smart and show them the walking papers. [/quote]

We were both a bit shocked at some of the teaching and wondered what the local bishops thought, in all honestly.  It felt like Jason was preparing the congregation for some sort of
post Christian future, something far removed from any semblance of a traditional Christian faith.  Not just progressive in their posture, that's a given, but then also many steps further down the path towards something like universalism or unitarianism.  Which is fine, I guess, but nothing we were interested in.  Don't believe the UMC is either, but I may be mistaken.[/quote]

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