From Tullian Tchividjian: So, here’s a good litmus test: whether it’s a sermon, a book, a blog post, or a tweet–if the lasting impression you get causes you to focus more on what you must do than on what Christ has done, the gospel has not been communicated and the communicator (albeit, unwittingly) is no …
Don Sweeting compares the criteria which were used to define a healthy church in times past: Acts 2:42; the Nicene Creed; the Reformation with some of the search parameters which people use today: music; coffee; number of people who are just like me, and wonders if contemporary ‘church shoppers’ might not be able to refine …
Timmy Brister briefly expands on these words from Mark Dever, both of which deal with the contemporary phenomenon of treating the gathered church as unimportant or as an impediment to spreading the Gospel. They are also relevant to those who want to contend (correctly) that all of life is worship, except for the few hours …
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