A number (of members) are former Auburn students who attended (Reformed University Fellowship) while at college. When they moved to Nashville, they went looking for a church with similar beliefs.

There’s no cross or stained glass on the outside of the former warehouse on Second Avenue North in Nashville, no pithy spiritual messages on a sign out front.

But the parking lot is full on Sunday mornings. And inside, the sound of prayers and songs and laughing kids echo around the gray cinderblock building that houses the Axis Church.

A year ago, the church was mostly in the minds of Jeremy Rose and a handful of friends. They began meeting in the Morgan Park Community Center on Sunday nights and holding Bible studies in a downtown bar…

Every year, new churches start up and then fizzle out in Middle Tennessee. Axis is bucking that trend with Calvinist theology — which stresses the sinful state of mankind — community outreach, and a mix of old and new worship styles. They rent their own building, and members already are planning to help a new congregation in Madison…

Silkwood said she was drawn to the church by its Reformed theology — which is based on the writings of John Calvin — and emphasis on verse-by-verse preaching through the books of the Bible. The church also sets the high expectation that faith must become the central part of members’ lives.

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