The Bridge: A Baptist Church in Kamloops, B.C.

Welcome to The Bridge Church. We’re guessing that if this is your first time visiting this website you are walking on one of two paths. The first path is that you are a believer with a background in church, you’re new to the area, and you’re looking for a place to attend church, or you’re just checking us out. If at some point during your visit to this website you want to know more about us, please feel free to worship with us on Sunday morning! We meet at 1393 9th Avenue, and our worship services begin at 10:30 AM. The second path that you may be on is that you aren’t a Christian, you don’t have a background in Church, or you haven’t been inside of a church in a long time. We want to welcome you. Our church is a safe place for you to have some doubts about what we are saying, to be skeptical and curious, and to be interested in knowing more about God. There are no doors that are closed to you at our church, so please explore as much as you want. Visit us on Sunday morning! Go to a mid-week Life Group, and help us serve our community and reach out to the world! As former agnostics, atheists, skeptics, unbelievers, and wanderers, we have a great deal of respect for the genuine seeker who is looking for God! If we can help answer any of your questions or serve you in anyway let us know.

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Galatians

…through the fog of deception to the heart of God.

Over the 2009-2010 year our church is going to be working its way through the book of Galatians. Galatians is an amazing book that has often surprised me, shocked me, and captivated me in ways that few other of the letters in the New Testament have. Why? Because Paul wages unlimited war against falsehood and deceit. His singular motivation is to destroy every obstacle that might stand between God and His children. In a way every single word of scripture does this. But God shows, through the hand of Paul in Galatians, His fierce determination to have a real relationship with His kids, His willingness to fight for His family, and His rage against those who would attempt to take His family away from Him.

One of the most amazing statements is the indictment of the Galatian Christians for abandoning the Gospel. “I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, to a different gospel,” Paul declared. The Galatians had failed in the crucial test of discerning the authentic Gospel from its counterfeits.

His words could not be more clear: “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you have received, he is to be accursed!” [Galatians 1:8-9] This warning from Paul, expressed in the language of shock and grief, is addressed not only to the church in Galatia, but to every congregation in every age. In our own day — and in our own churches here in Kamloops — we desperately need to hear and to heed this warning. In our own time, we face many false gospels no less subversive and no less seductive than those encountered and embraced by the Galatians.

It is this pastor’s prayer that we will see through the fog of these deceptions and embrace an authentic relationship with God.