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• We are baptizing at least 4 people and a baby on Easter Sunday!
• Matthew Lilley will be playing worship for us this Sunday.
• New t-shirts arrive this week!
• Tweetup tomorrow night! Pay attention live here.
• Did I mention that WCTI-ABC will be covering our Block Party?
• Did I mention the FREAKING OFF-THE-CHAIN THROWDOWN, DRAG OUT BLOCK PARTY WE ARE THROWING FOR JESUS’ RISING? Yeah, it’ll be OK.

From the Taproot Reader:

A Community of Challenged Men

So what does it look like for us to be Gospel-centered and resolved men? It means we are to love Jesus with a fervent passion because He has saved us. It means we love others like we love ourselves…because we are all in need of the saving grace of Jesus. It means we love our wives as Christ loved the Church. It means we raise our kids like the Father has raised us. It means we work hard that some may be saved…and pray hard that all may be saved.

At Harmony Church, we want a community of dissatisfied men: men who are dissatisfied with the way things have been and the way things are. Men who are dissatisfied with the Enemy’s constant advances. Men who are dissatisfied with the “old boys” produced by our culture. Men who are dissatisfied with the way that women are treated as objects in our world. Men who are dissatisfied with the way children are cast aside as bills to pay rather than people to love. Men who are dissatisfied with the Church whonis emasculating men in record numbers.

We want men who are challenged to lead in a way that has rarely been seen before. Husbands, fathers…Christ-followers. We want to raise up a number of pastors to shepherd the coming harvest in Greenville. It starts with having men who have been challenged by Christ and the Scriptures to hold themselves to a higher standard: the standard of Jesus.

These are Harmony Church men. Are you in?

Taproot meets at Moe’s SW Grill on Red Banks Road tonight at 6:30. Bring a Bible.

From the Taproot Reader:

Introduction
As you may well know from firsthand experience, men are particularly adept at avoiding the Church…and all things related. This often means that men in our culture want to avoid the church’s Husband, Jesus Himself. Our culture raises homies not hubbies; baby-daddies, not loving fathers. Our city in particular is deprived of a large community of loving fathers who worship Jesus as God, respect their wives as submissive equals, love their children into the Gospel, and cultivate the city. Taproot is meant to address these areas not directly, but rather by building up men who are solid in who God is…and what that means for us practically.

Since the inception of Harmony Church, our very goal has been to make Jesus famous by the creation of a new culture. This culture is based upon and rooted in Scripture. As we see clearly from the Word of God, men have a vital role as leader in the redeemed, God-glorifying culture. We at Harmony Church want to cultivate ourselves into the types of leaders that God requires in order to build a culture that makes His name great in our city. These leaders are to love Jesus, know and believe the Gospel, and live it out in a day-in, day-out fashion. We as God-honoring men are to lead our wives, our children, our friends, our workplaces, and our church to worship Jesus in every avenue of life.

May you look to Him, the Savior King who is sovereign over all, as the root of your very being.

Taproot Reader