{"id":10606,"date":"2010-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2010\/04\/16\/church-by-any-other-name\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T00:00:00","slug":"church-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/church-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A Church by Any Other Name &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed that church names are getting increasingly strange? Our friend Dennis Baker has. He&#8217;s been keeping a list of church names in order to document how far we&#8217;ve come from the days of &#8220;First Presbyterian&#8221; and &#8220;Springfield Baptist.&#8221; He sent us the following list of 129 church names. I&#8217;ve added my reactions in parentheses. <\/p><p>1.\tResonate <\/p><p>2.\tRevolution (Where only senior pastors get beheaded.)<\/p><p>3.\tRadiance (Where the female vocalists all glitter like Mariah Carey.)<\/p><p>4.\tElevation (U2 songs every bloody Sunday.) <\/p><p>5.\tRestoration <\/p><p>6.\tRenovation (You can do it! God can help.)<\/p><p>7.\tMosaic <\/p><p>8.\tenCompass (Wii th-|-nk [outside] the box. We R crAtiVe.)<\/p><p>9.\tEpiphany Station (Next stop, Conjunction Junction!)<\/p><p>10.\tSoma (Our pastor knows Greek.)<\/p><p>11.\tSanctuary <\/p><p>12.\tRock Harbor (If your life hasn&#8217;t run aground yet, we can help.)<\/p><p>13.\tJourney (&#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Believing&#8221; is our theme song.)<\/p><p>14.\tThe Rock (If film producer Michael Bay ever created a church\u2026the pyrotechnics are amazing.)<\/p><p>15.\tThe River (The pastor ends every sentence with &#8220;\u2026 in a van down by the river.&#8221;)<\/p><p>16.\tThe Flood (Natural disasters always provoke worship.)<\/p><p>17.\tThe Bridge (William &#8220;the Fridge&#8221; Perry&#8217;s post-ordination nickname.)<\/p><p>18.\tBridges <\/p><p>19.\tReal Life Ministries (Where reality TV stars come for healing.)<\/p><p>20.\tMars Hill (Mars was the god of war \u2026 prepare for battle.)<\/p><p>21.\tImago Dei (Our pastor knows Latin \u2026 well, one phrase anyway.)<\/p><p>22.\tCorem Deo (Our favorite movie is <em>Dead Poets Society<\/em>.)<\/p><p>23.\tCelebration Church (We don&#8217;t do funerals.)<\/p><p>24.\tPassion City (Not to be confused with the adult superstore on I-94.)<\/p><p>25.\tOasis Church (Serenity Now! Serenity Now!)<\/p><p>26.\tParadox (Modernity sucks.)<\/p><p>27.\tRenaissance Church (Are nude frescoes a distraction in worship?)<\/p><p>28.\tOrigins (Home of the Young Earth Gospel. Darwin was a chump.)<\/p><p>29.\tLegacy (We&#8217;re scared to death we won&#8217;t have one.)<\/p><p>30.\tTapestry (Our pastor really loves that &#8220;the threads don&#8217;t make sense until you turn the cloth over&#8221; illustration.)<\/p><p>31.\tChurch w\/  No Walls (And a never-ending building campaign.)<\/p><p>32.\tSojourners (Wait. We didn&#8217;t know it was liberal Christian magazine too. Dang.)<\/p><p>33.\tOut Post (The parsonage is known as the &#8220;Out House.&#8221;)<\/p><p>34.\tGeneration (which one? X? Y? Pepsi? I&#8217;m confused.)<\/p><p>35.\tEncounter (Sounds like a ride at Epcot. Where are the aliens?)<\/p><p>36.\tWarehouse (Where Christians are organized, packaged, and safely stored until the rapture.)<\/p><p>37.\tWarehouse 180 (If we can&#8217;t grow a church we&#8217;ll start a nightclub.)<\/p><p>38.\tRelevant (Our name is writing checks the preacher may not be able to cash.)<\/p><p>39.\tRadiant (Sounds like a line of makeup for pre-teens.)<\/p><p>40.\tElevate (Our pastor&#8217;s pedestal is higher than yours.)<\/p><p>41.\tIlluminate (The lights are on but nobody&#8217;s home.)<\/p><p>42.\tAnthem (For God and country. Yee haw!)<\/p><p>43.\tTerraNova (Trekkies for Jesus. Live long and prosper.)<\/p><p>44.\tCrux (Ah Shux. How cute.)<\/p><p>45.\tTrue Spirit Ministries <\/p><p>46.\tThe Well (The un-well best worship elsewhere.)<\/p><p>47.\tJacob&#8217;s Well (Where bachelors hang out to find their future wives.)<\/p><p>48.\tMatthew&#8217;s Party (Where the tax collectors and thieves have been replaced by IRS agents and investment bankers.)<\/p><p>49.\tThe Brook <\/p><p>50.\tAwakening (We do early services like nobody else.)<\/p><p>51.\tMercy Street (Where Sesame Street characters go for rehab. Cookie Monster has checked in 7 times.)<\/p><p>52.\tExpedition (Anything with an &#8220;x&#8221; is cool.)<\/p><p>53.\tCarpenter&#8217;s Shed (Where church discipline happens the old fashioned way.)<\/p><p>54.\tOutcast Fellowship (The &#8220;Table 9&#8221; of churches.)<\/p><p>55.\tFlipside (If you don&#8217;t get the reference to vinyl records, you&#8217;re probably too young to attend.)  <\/p><p>56.\tHarbor 316 (God so loved the world &#8230; that whoever believes in him might have a 30&#8242; boat and reduced fee slip.)<\/p><p>57.\tTrue North (not like all those other North wannabes)<\/p><p>58.\tA Village Community (Ambiguity is the best way to avoid controversy.)<\/p><p>59.\tRefuge (Is this what we offer, or what we long for?)<\/p><p>60.\tSubstance (Come for the substance, leave with the residue.) <\/p><p>61.\tSolomon&#8217;s Porch (The guy had 1,000 wives. He was a tough dog to keep on the porch.)<\/p><p>62.\tThe Salvage Yard (Jesus loves white trash.)<\/p><p>63.\tThe Upper Room (Where we cling to our guns and religion and hide from the authorities.)<\/p><p>64.\tUrban Refuge (AKA the suburbs.)<\/p><p>65.\tNew Spring (We give away bottled tap water.)<\/p><p>66.\tNew Song (Be the 10th caller if we play the same artist twice, and you&#8217;ll be entered to win a trip to Cancun.)<\/p><p>67.\tNew Beginnings (Where we make new resolutions every Sunday and break them on Monday.)<\/p><p>68.\tNew Life (Same baggage.)<\/p><p>69.\tThe Church @ 514 (Man, that&#8217;s early.)<\/p><p>70.\tThe Pursuit (Speed dating every Wednesday at 10 p.m.)<\/p><p>71.\tCrossings (We yield for pedestrians.)<\/p><p>72.\tFrontLine (No fleas or ticks for up to 3 months guaranteed.)<\/p><p>73.\tDepth (We&#8217;re so deep even the poets at the indie coffee shop can&#8217;t stand us.)<\/p><p>74.\tHaven (Some get Haven, others get Hail.)<\/p><p>75.\tSandals (Church membership includes a timeshare in the Bahamas.)<\/p><p>76.\tCompass (Our sermons have four points.)<\/p><p>77.\tParadox (See #26. Redundant is bad. Repetition is good. Ahh. Hmm.)<\/p><p>78.\t2 Pillars Church (Islam has 5. Christianity is <em>way <\/em>easier. )<\/p><p>79.\tStanding Stones (No clapping, hand-raising, or swaying during worship, thank you.)<\/p><p>80.\t12Stones Church <\/p><p>81.\tVintage (We use real wine for communion.)<\/p><p>82.\tVantage<\/p><p>83.\tCross Culture (It was this or Empty Tomb Culture &#8230; )<\/p><p>84.\tScum of The Earth (Finally some honesty in advertising.)<\/p><p>85.\tGuts Church (We&#8217;re here to pump [clap] you up!)<\/p><p>86.\tThe Cause (Because our marketing consultant told us 20-somethings are activists.)<\/p><p>87.\tHealing Place<\/p><p>88.\tThe Homeless Church<\/p><p>89.\tOverflow Church (For those who couldn&#8217;t find a seat at the megachurch down the street.)<\/p><p>90.\tNorthPointe (Adding an &#8220;e&#8221; tells everyone we&#8217;re sophisticated. We drink lattes.)<\/p><p>91.\tCenterPoint (We used to have a space in the middle, but we grew. Now even our name is crowded.)<\/p><p>92.\tOceanPoint <\/p><p>93.\tSouthPointe <\/p><p>94.\tWestPoint (Praise the Lord. Pass the ammunition.)<\/p><p>95.\tEastPoint <\/p><p>96.\tMidPoint Chapel<\/p><p>97.\tCrossPointe<\/p><p>98.\tGracePoint<\/p><p>99.\tLifePoint<\/p><p>100. FaithPoint<\/p><p>101. MercyPoint (Okay! Okay! I&#8217;ve got the point!)<\/p><p>102. The Point is to Serve (Where the whole service is announcements.)<\/p><p>103. BridgePoint<\/p><p>104. VantagePoint (Where we look down from our lofty perch.)<\/p><p>105. 7 San Diego (Stay classy San Diego.)<\/p><p>106. The Intersection (Where sermons can crash and burn.)<\/p><p>107. In-Between (A church for the undecided.)<\/p><p>108. Element 3 (Lithium. We worship Lithium.)<\/p><p>109. The Orchard (What we tore down to build this facility.)<\/p><p>110. The Fields (What we paved over to build the parking lot.)<\/p><p>111. Harvest <\/p><p>112. Life On The Vine (Even poop is organic.)<\/p><p>113. The Table <\/p><p>114. The Free Church (If something sounds too good to be true \u2026)<\/p><p>115. Spread Church (Cream cheese, strawberry preserves, honey butter \u2026 communion is sweet.)<\/p><p>116. The Exchange (We give you religious goods and services in exchange for your tithe.)<\/p><p>117. The Encounter (There are two &#8220;n&#8217;s&#8221; in our name. How many in our mission statement?)<\/p><p>118. The Hub (Where the pastor spoke and the people never tire.)<\/p><p>119. Tribe <\/p><p>120.  Enclave<\/p><p>121.  Axis (For a generation raised to believe the world revolves around them.)<\/p><p>122.  Praxis (We adapt whatever Willow does.)<\/p><p>123.  Cool (All other churches drool.)<\/p><p>124.  Synergy Church (At last, an energy source we will never deplete.)<\/p><p>125.  Immersion (It sounds way cooler than &#8220;Baptist.&#8221;)<\/p><p>126.  Impact <\/p><p>127.  EpicLife Church (The space bar is for losers.)<\/p><p>128.  Liquid (Where the meat of the Word is processed and blended into delicious and nutritious shakes for the busy Christian on the go.) <\/p><p>129.  SoulSearch (We really thought StarSearch would be around a lot longer.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed that church names are getting increasingly strange? Our friend Dennis Baker has. He&#8217;s been keeping a list of church names in order to document how far we&#8217;ve come from the days of &#8220;First Presbyterian&#8221; and &#8220;Springfield Baptist.&#8221; He sent us the following list of 129 church names. 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