The Gospel produces love for, and a desire to be with, other Christians in worship. From Matt Manry: Gospel-Motivated Church Attendance There is no doubt that what we need to recover in the life of Christians today is a gospel-motivated church attendance. What might this look like? Well, in my opinion it’s demonstrating the fact …
Chuck Lawless summarises his own work on expectant versus reactive churches. When I get weary I trend more to the reactive spectrum. There’s a bunch of things that I call my ‘to do’ list. More of them were actioned in my early days at MGPC. Over the last few years the pace has slowed. I’m …
David Cook offers a suggestion about study leave that I’d never considered before. Go and study other pastors. (One of the blessings that I have is opportunities to travel and interact with other pastors from around Australia. Including David himself. Which is wonderful because I’m a bit off the beaten path. But there are plenty …
I linked to the first part of this series a couple of weeks ago. In parts 2 and 3 Skye Jethani expands on his observation of church as destination instead of vehicle. Here’s the link to part 2 “The church can learn an important lesson from this delusion: Relevance backfires when it overshadows your uniqueness.” …
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