As a local church leadership in a country town we’re exploring again how we express the need to support the growth of healthy churches in other places. I believe doing so is an integral marker of a healthy church. From Thabiti Anyabwile. Every Neighborhood, Every Neighbor I believe it’s important that every local church, in …
Thom Rainer lists six reasons why dying churches continue on a terminal trajectory. They refuse to admit they are sick, very sick. I have worked with churches whose attendance has declined by over 80 percent. They have no gospel witness in the community. They have not seen a person come to Christ in two decades. …
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 25 Chapter 16 – Of Good Works (Paragraphs 1-4) I. Good works are only such as God has commanded in his holy Word, and not such as, without the warrant thereof, are devised by men out of blind zeal, or upon any pretense of good intention. II. These …
Why as a church would we be expressing an aim for two worship services on a Sunday morning instead of one? It’s a question we’re working through at MGPC. Steve McAlpine writes about the struggle of the church (his and others) to break through a growth barrier that does more than simply keep pace with …
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