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Thank you for visiting our website.
Open Gate Community Church is an open, loving, and diverse community of believers in El Paso Texas which has been working to fulfill the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20) and the Great Commandment (Matthew 22:37-40) in El Paso's Northeast for over 45 years. We are part of the Nazarene Denomination which mission is to "Make Christlike Disciples in the Nations" and celebrated 100 years as a denomination in October 2008.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us .
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:19 (NIV)
36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." Matthew 22:36-40 (NIV)
35 One of their religion scholars spoke for them, posing a question they hoped would show him up: 36 "Teacher, which command in God's Law is the most important?" 37 Jesus said, " 'Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.' 38 This is the most important, the first on any list. 39 But there is a second to set alongside it: 'Love others as well as you love yourself.' 40 These two commands are pegs; everything in God's Law and the Prophets hangs from them." Matthew 22:35-40 (MSG)
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'The Senior,' 59-year-old Mike Flynt, returns after 37 years
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By JAIME ARON AP Sports Writer Sul Ross State linebacker Mike Flynt watches during a football game against Howard Payne, in this Sept. 29, 2007 file photo, ...
U.S. Religious... but Religiously Illiterate
An article in the Indianapolis Star reports that the United States, one of the most religious countries in the world, is also a nation of appalling religious illiteracy. The article discusses Stephen Prothero's "revealing" book, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know and Doesn't. According to Prothero, in the U.S., "faith without understanding is the standard" and "religious ignorance is bliss." He also regards religious illiteracy as dangerous "because religion is one of the most volatile components of culture and has been, in addition to one of the greatest forces for good in the world, (also) one of the greatest forces for evil." Some examples the article cites of our country's religious illiteracy include: "nearly two-thirds of Americans endorse the teaching of creationism in our public schools, [but] fewer than half can identify the Book of Genesis... [Just under half] of Americans attribute the words "Let there be light" to Thomas Edison... Two-thirds believe that the Bible is God's word, only half of American adults can name even one of the Four Gospels... Ten percent of Americans believe that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife."
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