On October 20, 2006, the congregation of Gateway Fellowship in Sacramento met to discuss the beginning of our new vision of Gateway 3.0. This vision is of a new way of doing church - Open Source Christianity. Just as Open Source software prepares the original computer code and then encourages others to add to it and improve it, so Gateway 3.0 proposes the basic idea of where God wants us to go, but it is up to every member of our church to improve it and work upon it. Listen to this 45 minute meeting and view the accompanying PowerPoint presentation on this podcast. At the end, please fill out the form and attach it to an email, sending it to:

mikeinsac@sbcglobal.net

One young girl told a pastor that she would be willing to sleep with a guy if it meant he would come to Jesus and go to heaven. On the other end of that spectrum, there are bible teachers who claim that God doesn't want us to have anything to do with unbelievers or to have anything to do with Christians who have anything to do with unbelievers. Somewhere between the two of them is a balanced approach. There are people with whom we should have no deep relationship. In this message, we discover who they might be and how to keep away from them.

This Powerpoint presentation goes along with the Audio congregational meeting which is posted above. If you desire, download this and then advance the slides as the presentation goes along.

Also, here is the response form that we would like you to submit as soon as you can. If you want to send it to us, email it back to:

mikeinsac@sbcglobal.net

For downloading these forms, right click on the link and click "save link as" and it will begin downloading.

You can also bring it one of the next two Sundays. Please do not sign it. We want these forms to have the strength of anonymity.

Our lives would be so much easier if people were not involved in them. Whether it is pastoring, psychiatry, teaching or working in an office, any job would be a piece of cake if people weren't central to what we have to do. In this message, we explore how others put obstacles in our way, and how we can act in the opposite spirit to not only hurdle the obstacles but represent God well in the process.

Legalism is not a love or rules or a critical spirit or a cultural habit. There is a much different answer completely that may surprise you. When you see what the real reason behind legalism is, you'll realize that any of us can enter into it.

Just as there are physical senses which keep us in touch with the physical realm, so too are there spiritual senses which help us identify spiritual things and truths. There is a spiritual sense of smell and even the person who doesn't believe in God has it. In this message, we will look at how a Christian smells like to another Christian and to those who don't believe. The real point of this is seeing what we need to do about the noxious fumes that emanate from us to others.