About Our Pastor

Pastor Grant Cole served as Outreach Pastor and Associate Pastor of Connection Pointe Church of God for 25 years. During that time, he founded Parents With A Purpose, now known as Mission 1:27, where he continues to serve as President and Founder. He also co-founded Good Samaritan Health Center of Cobb, where he continues to serve on both the Executive Committee and Spiritual Health Committee.

Pastor Grant’s testimony went into print in 2015. Into the Darkness, Out Into the Light has been well-received in the United States and is spreading across Europe and Australia.

In January 2017, Pastor Grant founded Living Stone Church, which rapidly grew to 164 members in four months. On May 21, 2017, Living Stone Church merged with Open Bible Tabernacle, quickly becoming one big, happy, thriving family. Pastor Grant considers it a privilege and a joy to serve here as lead pastor.

He has been married for 39 years to his wife, Dani, who has a tremendous passion for pro-life causes. They have four children and nine grandchildren.

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OUR TEAM

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Joe Postell
Pastor Emeritus

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Phillip Medlin
Associate Pastor

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Amanda Medlin
Children’s Pastor

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Doug Hawkins
Youth Pastor

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Gary Davis
Christian Education Pastor

Justin Post
Worship Leader

OUR MISSION

 
 

Our Mission is to be a church that reflects the two greatest commandments. To “Love the Lord, thy God with all your heart, mind, soul, and body” and “Love your neighbor as yourself”. Once a person realizes that life is really about “Him” and “them”, then we can take the spiritual giftedness that God has given us and embrace God’s Kingdom for Service.

Living Stone Church is not a building or location, but rather a body of believers who seek to live out their faith in the presence of God, with the passion of Christ, and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

WE BELIEVE

  1. We believe the 66 books of the Holy Bible are the complete, inspired, infallible, Word of God, inerrant in the original writings of both the Old and New Testaments, and is the supreme and final authority in all matters of faith, life, and doctrine. (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Psalm 19:7; Romans 16:25-26)

  2. We believe there is one God, eternally existing in three distinct personalities as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Genesis 1:26; Matthew 3:16-17; John 1: 1-14, 14:16)

  3. We believe that Jesus Christ is Deity and was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, and is true God and true Man (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18-25; John 1:1,14)

  4. We believe that man was created in the image of God, but by voluntary transgression, he fell and not only experiences physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God, is in need of salvation, and his only hope of redemption is in Jesus Christ, the Son of God. (Genesis 1:26-31; Romans 5:12-21; John 14:6)

  5. We believe we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ’s atoning death through His shed blood, that He bodily resurrected and ascended into heaven, and that He will come again in power and glory. (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 10:9-10; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)

  6. We believe that sanctification begins at salvation and is the ongoing process of yielding to God’s Word and His Spirit in order to mature in the development of Christ’s character in us. It is through the present ministry of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God that the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. (1 Thessalonians 4:3; 5:23; 2 Corinthians 3:18, 6:14-18; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3; Romans 8:29, 12:1-2; Hebrews 2:11)

  7. We believe the Holy Spirit indwells all believers who have invited the Lord Jesus Christ to come and live inside them. The believer repents of his sins and relinquishes the authority of his life over to Him, thus making Jesus the Lord of his life, as well as Savior. (John 1:12, 14:17,23, 15:4; Romans 8:11; 2 Peter 3:9; Matthew 7:21)

  8. We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit given at Pentecost. It is the promise of the Father, sent by Jesus after His ascension, and is available to all believers who ask so that they may be empowered for the work of the ministry and to preach the Gospel thoughtout the entire world. (Joel 2:28-29; Matthew 3:11; Mark 16:17; Acts 1:5-8; 2:1-4,17,38-39, 8:14-17, 10:38,44-47, 11:15-17, 19:1-6; Luke 11:13)

  9. We believe the Holy Spirit is manifested through a variety of spiritual gifts that operate through individual believers to build and sanctify the church, demonstrate the validity of the resurrection, and confirm the power of the Gospel. These gifts always operate in harmony with the Scriptures. (Hebrews 2:4; Romans 12:4-8; Ephesians 4:16; 2 Timothy 1:6; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31, 14:1-40; 1 Peter 4:10)

  10. We believe that God created man, that He created them male and female, and that their gender is a gift from the Lord assigned at birth. As such, God created them different so as to complement and complete each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between one male and one female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. (Genesis 2:24; Leviticus 18:22; Matthew 19:4-6; John 4:16-18; Romans 1:26-27; Romans 1:18-32; Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:3-7)

  11. We believe the Holy Spirit unites the body of Christ in the Lord Jesus, with no separation of ethnicity or social standing for we are all one in Him (Ephesians 4:11-16; Galatians 3:26-29; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31

This statement of faith does not exhaust the extent of our beliefs. The Bible itself, as the inspired and infallible Word of God, speaks with final authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of mankind, and is the sole and final source of all we believe. For the purpose of Living Stone Church, the lead pastor and the elders board are the final interpretive authority on the Bible’s meaning and application.