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Christ’s Church is more than you and bigger than your wants
I ran into a former church member a while back. (Maybe I should be honest and say “disgruntled former church member.”) They recited a litany of things they had “heard” about our church. It was almost humorous because everything they … Continue reading
Some Practical Thoughts from the Front Lines on Ministry-Family Balance
I have spent Thanksgiving visiting dying people in the hospital. A few years ago I did a funeral on Christmas Eve. There have been occasions I’ve had to shift family things around to accommodate church matters. My son has a difficult … Continue reading
Pastoral Ministry has no “Career Path”
In James Strock’s excellent book Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership, he recounts TR (as he was known then and now) as saying that a person has to be careful about ambition. Early in his political career. As a twenty-three-year-old alderman, TR … Continue reading
Some Thoughts on Today’s Differing Perspectives of the Church
Some of the problems in Christianity today stem from confusion about the church itself. Different groups, that are often at odds with one another, tend to view the church differently and this difference of perspective has a profound effect on … Continue reading
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Tagged Church, church ministry, Ecclesiology, Millard Erickson, theology
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The Problem with the Church in the World Today
Read this quote and see if it doesn’t sound like the church today: The trouble with us today is not only that the Church’s message has become poisoned with modern thought and has therefore little to say to the modern … Continue reading
Posted in Church Ministry, Culture
Tagged Church, church ministry, culture, pastoral ministry, Thomas F. Torrance
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Some Thoughts on Paul’s Missionary Method, Church Growth, and Small Churches
Acts 16:9-15 records that on the first Sabbath after Paul arrives in Macedonia, he goes out to the river presumably because there is no synagogue there (he always began his ministry preaching to the Jews in the synagogue) and he … Continue reading
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Tagged Church Growth, church ministry, pastoral ministry, Small Churches
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Some Thoughts on the Church at Philippi and Small Churches
Acts 16:9-15 represents the first record we have of the Gospel going to a new continent. (It had undoubtedly made it to Europe, and perhaps other continents, before this, but this is the first record we have of it). The … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ-Centered, church ministry, pastoral ministry, Small Churches
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An Overview of the Scriptural teaching on Elders in Baptist Churches
This is the outline of a study for the church where I serve. I realize that in many traditions this is old hat but in some Baptist circles the question of whether a church should have elders is disputed. As … Continue reading
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Tagged church government, church leadership, church ministry, elders, pastoral ministry
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On Decision-making and Standing Firm
Some people make decisions after careful deliberation and then they stand by those decisions no matter what unless others convince them (also through careful deliberation) that they were wrong. If they are wrong, they are willing to admit that and … Continue reading
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Tagged church ministry, leadership, pastoral ministry
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The Message of Christianity is not Irrelevant, the Church has Made it Irrelevant
Why has the church been so successfully infiltrated by the world? Because in our attempt to make the gospel relevant, we became too enamored by the world and began to seek its approval. This has made the church weak, beginning with those … Continue reading
Posted in Church Ministry, Culture, Theology
Tagged Church, church ministry, cultural relevance, culturally relevant, culture, pastoral ministry
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