Songs of preparation: To The LORD O Sing A New Song (Psalm 98), and Blessed Be Your Name Call to worship: Prayer of Approach and Confession: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can …
You’ll laugh (nervously), you’ll cry, you’ll cringe. Thom Rainer’s list of ten things a guest should never have said to them when visiting a church. It’s missing “Could all the first time guests please stand up?”, but includes the classic “Have you considered attending the church down the street?”
Master list producer Thom Rainer provides seven reasons some church members don’t want their churches to grow. It’s important to know that people who love Jesus as Lord and Saviour and who want others to be saved can fall into these patterns. They need to be sensitively identified and addressed from the perspective of finding …
The actions of Easter are the message the preacher and the church celebrate week by week: The purpose of the church and its ministry, the most important thing that pastors do, is preach. All your theological training – all for the purpose of giving you the guts to make an apocalyptic announcement: God has won …
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