Thoughts from Carlos Whittaker: The local church isn’t hinging on how you decorate it. The local church isn’t going to die if you don’t fix it. The local church isn’t in need of your systems. The local church isn’t going to fall apart without the next generation fixing the last generation’s version. The local church …
These twelve principles for guiding established churches through change by Sam Rainer make sense. Since every healthy established church is continually changing through growth, these need to be observed everywhere. In my observations, three, five, eight and ten are consistent areas of stumbling in fostering change. If we believe in the body of Christ, then …
In the next couple of months MGPC will visited by a consultant to help us discern our opportunities for mission and ministry in Mount Gambier, with a special view to the transition of our second pastoral position early in 2016. Part of that examination is discerning our own congregational culture, to better know how we …
If you go to church tomorrow I hope you won’t be subjected to Bible teaching that emphasises your moral improvement, but rather you’ll hear about God’s salvation through Jesus. Ed Stetzer makes a point worth repeating over and over again: The simple fact is the Bible is not just a collection of stories with morals …
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