{"id":3264,"date":"2008-09-25T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2008\/09\/us-city-no-23-churches-in-boston\/"},"modified":"2017-09-16T18:09:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T17:09:28","slug":"us-city-no-23-churches-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2008\/09\/us-city-no-23-churches-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"US City No. 23 &#8211; Churches in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/298\/2008\/09\/Newfrontiers-714323.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"10\">Today I want to highlight two churches in Boston\u2014the 23rd largest city in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>The first of these is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abundantgraceboston.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Abundant Grace Church, Boston<\/a>. The second is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fenwaychurch.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fenway Church, Boston<\/a>, which is a new church plant that is due to have its first service on October 5th in Kilmarnock Street.<\/p>\n<p>From time to time I plan on highlighting other Newfrontiers churches or plants that are based in the <a href=\"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2008\/07\/wanted-1000-reformed-charismatic.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">top 100 cities in the USA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">UPDATE<\/span> The Fenway Church plant has issued the following press release.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">New Church Opens at Nightclub<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">Forget the organs; forget the pews; forget everything you have ever thought about church and come check out a new take on the Christian Church\u2026 at a club. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Fenway<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"> Church is<\/span><span> a community of believers in Jesus who are working together to form a dynamic, relevant church in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span>  <\/span>Unlike most Christian churches, Fenway Church has decided to meet in a club rather than a traditional church building to demonstrate the life of Jesus in action. Contrary to popular belief, Jesus spent his life on earth not establishing a closed church community, but rather he went from place to place meeting and serving people in their own environments. <span> <\/span>The first Sunday service of Fenway Church will be on October 5<sup>th<\/sup> at 1:00 pm at 69 Kilmarnock Street, a new restaurant\/bar\/club ironically named \u201cChurch.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">There is free parking in the back of the building. <span> <\/span>Check out <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fenwaychurch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">www.fenwaychurch.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:100%\"> for more information.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I want to highlight two churches in Boston\u2014the 23rd largest city in the USA. The first of these is Abundant Grace Church, Boston. The second is Fenway Church, Boston, which is a new church plant that is due to have its first service on October 5th in Kilmarnock Street. From time to time I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[475],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-church-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>US City No. 23 - Churches in Boston<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today I want to highlight two churches in Boston\u2014the 23rd largest city in the USA.The first of these is Abundant Grace Church, Boston. 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