Open Door Chapel
186 Lake Dow Road
McDonough, Georgia

Interim Pastor David H. Muray
770-957-2940

“...behold, I have set before thee a door opened, which none can shut...”
Revelation 3:8

Open Door Chapel is a Trinitarian fellowship of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, supernaturally conceived in the womb of the virgin Mary, Who grew up as fully man, at the same time retaining His full deity. Though subject to all the temptations of humanity, He overcame them without once sinning. He became the sacrificial Lamb that takes away the sin of the world. His bodily resurrection is seen as the evidence of God’s acceptance of His substitutionary death on the cross. God revealed these truths in The Bible which is the accurate and authoritative revelation of God to us. Christ's Holy Spirit is the author of the Bible and the one sent to guide and empower our Christian walk. He has led us to take seriously the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and to teach that God's free and powerful grace makes it possible to live as Christ would in our generation. We also have the privilege and responsibility to see the people of this whole world come to the knowledge of the glory of God and work with Christ to see His Kingdom set up on this earth as He taught us to pray for in the Lord's prayer. The fellowship we enjoy as members of His Kingdom is a foretaste of God’s great plan for Jesus Christ’s eventual worldwide dominion on this earth.

Weekly Services:

** Traditional worship service every Sunday at 10:00 AM (We encourage children to attend the main worship service with their parents, although a nursery will be available on an as needed basis.)

** Sunday School for children (ages 2 and up) and Adult Prayer Service at 11:30 AM.

** Wednesday 7:30 PM Bible Study; (temporarily on Tues at 7:30 PM.)

** Wednesday 6:30 AM prayer meeting. Requests may be called in ahead of time.

** Thursday: Monthly Visit to Cornerstone Nursing Home 7:00 PM (To be announced).

** Friday Evening Sabbath Services. (Arranged on occasion for special fellowship.)

Directions: From I-75 south, take exit 221 and go left back over the interstate toward McDonough. Cross RR tracks before reaching the town square. Go half way around the square and follow signs for 81 West out of town. Take a left in front of McDonald’s restaurant onto Lake Dow Road. The church is on your right in about a half a mile.

Missionaries to Pray For:

*Beth Merrell, serving Wycliffe Bible Translators near Mexico City, Mexico.

Countries to Pray For With Connections to Open Door Chapel Membership:
America, Armenia, Canada, Israel, India, Iraq, Japan, and Mexico.

Recommended Reading List:(We do not necessarily endorse everything in these books but believe them to be helpful)

"The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel
“The Case for Faith” by Lee Strobel
“Can Man Live Without God?” By Ravi Zacharias
“The Coronet Story: America’s Most Historic Yacht”, by Captain Timothy F. Murray
“Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution” by Michael J. Behe
“Evening by Evening: Faith Building Meditations” by C. H. Spurgeon
“Knowing God” by J. I. Packer
“Mere Christianity” by C. S. Lewis
“Basic Christianity” by John R. W. Stott
“Politically Correct Death: Answering Arguments for Abortion Rights”, by F. J. Beckwith
“Quest For Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity” by Elisabeth Elliot
"Reforming Marriage" by Douglas Wilson
"Shepherding a Child's Heart" by Ted Tripp
"Lifetime Guarantee" (Making Your Christian Life Work and What To Do When It Doesn't) by Bill Gillham
For further early history and origins on the parent fellowship of Open Door Chapel: Kingdom Christian Ministries, see "The Sublimity of Faith, the Life and Work of Frank W. Sandford" by Frank S. Murray, available through Fairwood Bible Bookstore.

Helpful Web Links and Phone numbers:

Cherish Christian Home Educators of Henry and Clayton County www.heir.org/sgcherish.htm cherishhomeschool@juno.com

Pregnancy Resource Center of Henry County; McDonough, Georgia. Phone #: 770-957-8288 (A pro-life Christian ministry seeking to provide services to women faced with unexpected pregnancies.)

Fairwood Bible Institute, Dublin, NH Phone: 603-563-8492 www.kingdomchristianministries.org

“No safe teacher of the life of faith ever says that it becomes impossible to sin; he only insists that sin ceases to become a necessity and, therefore, continual victory is available to us.... Of course, in speaking of sin here, I mean conscious, known sin. I do not touch on the subject of sins of ignorance, the inevitable sin of our nature, which is met by the provision of Christ and does not disturb our fellowship with God..... Many things we do innocently until increasing light shows them to be wrong, and these may be classed under sins of ignorance. Because they are done in ignorance, they do not bring us under condemnation....” Hannah Whitall Smith from “God is Enough”, Ballantine Books, New York, p. 83.

"Now unto Him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of His glory without blemish in exceeding joy, to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and power, before all time, and now, and for evermore. Amen." Jude 24.

"For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His loving kindness toward them that fear Him. ...And His Kingdom ruleth over all." Psalm 103