Sylvania Church (Tyler, Texas)

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Sylvania Church is located in Tyler, TX. It practices God-centered worship and blended worship singing, combining the best of the old and the new in dynamic worship services.

www.sylvaniachurch.com
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Coordinates:   32°19'6"N   95°16'0"W

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  • Stay away! This church is no longer preaching the gospel.
  • What a crazy comment to make about Sylvania! I guess it all depends on how you define "the gospel." The gospel Sylvania preaches is that all people are by nature sinners who have offended a holy God by failing to glorify Him as they should and are therefore objects of God's wrath, fully deserving of eternal punishment. But God, being rich in mercy, in His infinite love, because it pleased Him, gave up His own Son as a sacrifice who would pay for the sins of all who trust that His death on the cross was good enough to reconcile them to God. Sylvania preaches that this death transfers our sin to Christ and Christ's righteousness to us, thus giving to us completely apart from our works or earning, the righteousness that is required to have fellowship with God and inherit eternal life in heaven with Him. Sylvania doesn't preach a gospel that says God plans to give every human earthly health and earthly riches (see the life of Jesus and the apostles in the New Testament and also http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/2007/1993_Prosperity_Preaching_Deceitful_and_Deadly/) or that He wants us to find the good that's naturally within us (see Romans 3:10-20). Instead, Sylvania points people away from any sufficiency that is within them toward the all-sufficiency and infinite beauty and greatness of the Lord Jesus Christ, who has done for us what we could not and would not do for ourselves. And why does Sylvania teach that way? Not to beat people into discouragement over sin, but to see God bring about a healthy, humble recognition of sin before God that they may unleashed to bring great glory to God by finding their deepest satisfaction in Him. This is the great truth of the gospel according to the Bible that Sylvania Church preaches and teaches without hesitation or apology!
  • Amen, Lamar. And well said dtsstudent.
  • this church is awesome
  • i go there and it is cool
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