Fellowship
Recently a friend and fellow house church enthusiast alerted me to a division within the fellowship he is a member of. The division centered on doctrine, with one member apparently upset that the rest of the group did not appreciate the reformed doctrine he ascribed to. Without addressing the doctrines in question, I wanted to [...]
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It is a thoroughly biblical concept that members in the Body of Christ should expect to receive and dispense discipline in keeping with the repeated admonitions throughout scripture to build one another up in maturity. So if that is the case; Why do most church members end up leaving after one of the staff or [...]
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In a conversation regarding the post, Why I don’t want to go to your church, I came to the revelation that even if pastors and church staff are aware of the issue of declining church attendance that plagues most churches in America today, they still manage to miss the reason for the decline and thus [...]
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I had a revelation the other day about the state of the Christian church. This revelation came while talking with a friend of mine who told me a story about a family member who recently “felt called” to go be a missionary (as if that werent possible where they were at). They lamented that their [...]
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[HT Alan Knox] Alan shares a list of things he doesn’t worry about as a pastor (teaching elder) in a home church context. They include: getting fired for saying the wrong thing sermon preparation week after week finding someone to “fill in” budgets1 the meeting place number of participants2 I find it amazing how prevalent professional pastor [...]
A friend on Facebook pointed me to this lecture by Rodney Stark, author of the excellent book Victory of Reason. This lecture is titled “Religious Competition” Audio here I think most of what Stark says is spot-on. I disagree with him, of course, when He dogs the protestant movement and gives an unexcused free pass [...]
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A new study shows compelling evidence that we are wired to be social, even from the womb. Of course, this should come as no surprise to the Christian who was told long ago that The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. -Genesis 2:18 And also Two are better than [...]
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