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Good Intentions Gone Wrong… “Everyone’s Favorite Heresies”
Faith is often described through three frameworks: believing, behaving, and belonging. At EBPC, we naturally lean into belonging—the relational, incarnational spirituality that shapes 21st‑century Christian life.
This January, we are focusing on the believing aspect of the Christian faith, exploring some of Christianity’s most infamous theological missteps—ideas that began as sincere attempts to be faithful, yet ultimately led the Church astray. These were good intentions gone wrong, and they still have something to teach us. Why revisit these ancient controversies? Because the questions that shaped early Christianity are still our questions. When we approach our theological past with curiosity and humility, we discover that even heresies illuminate the boundaries of a life‑giving faith.
Faith is often described through three frameworks: believing, behaving, and belonging. At EBPC, we naturally lean into belonging—the relational, incarnational spirituality that shapes 21st‑century Christian life.
This January, we are focusing on the believing aspect of the Christian faith, exploring some of Christianity’s most infamous theological missteps—ideas that began as sincere attempts to be faithful, yet ultimately led the Church astray. These were good intentions gone wrong, and they still have something to teach us. Why revisit these ancient controversies? Because the questions that shaped early Christianity are still our questions. When we approach our theological past with curiosity and humility, we discover that even heresies illuminate the boundaries of a life‑giving faith.
February 8, 2026
Good Intentions Gone Wrong… “Everyone’s Favorite Heresies”: Beloved, Not a Banner
Pastor John visits examples in history of the tie between the Christian religious faith and political military power, and what we are seeing today in what's being referred to as Christian nationalism and where Christianity is being sought to be essentially the religion of the state, and that things that are done, whether it's policing our own citizenry or being involved militarily with other nations, is increasingly being done in the name of the church, in which the message of Jesus, which is one of compassion, reconciliation, humility and human dignity, gets corrupted, leading many spiritual seekers to reject the church for these reasons.
Good Intentions Gone Wrong… “Everyone’s Favorite Heresies”: Beloved, Not a Banner
Pastor John visits examples in history of the tie between the Christian religious faith and political military power, and what we are seeing today in what's being referred to as Christian nationalism and where Christianity is being sought to be essentially the religion of the state, and that things that are done, whether it's policing our own citizenry or being involved militarily with other nations, is increasingly being done in the name of the church, in which the message of Jesus, which is one of compassion, reconciliation, humility and human dignity, gets corrupted, leading many spiritual seekers to reject the church for these reasons.
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