There’s a one year old Baptist Church in the US with a membership of fifteen that has received world-wide publicity for an outreach activity they are planning. I wanted to link to their website, but it has either crashed due to too much traffic or been suspended. Initially I saw this as video on the …
A couple of weeks ago I posted a brief reflection on a blog piece written by Tim Keller, lead pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York. Keller characterised various emphases of different churches, and described his (and my) tradition as distinctively having: ‘a ‘prophetic’ emphasis on preaching, teaching, and doctrine. The danger there is …
Maybe you don’t like to call it ‘membership’. Perhaps you’d prefer ‘covenant’ or ‘partnership’ or some other term. I don’t want to get tangled up on that. The issue is: who are we, as Christians, in specific and intentional partnership with on a local basis? Kevin DeYoung writes about ‘Why Membership Matters‘. I thing he …
In parts one and two I considered the first seven of ten propositions which form the central theme of the soon to be published Matthias Media book ‘The Vine And The Trellis’. Today we close out the final three. In the interests of transparency, at mgpc the leadership are currently being challenged by our leadership …
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