A pastor is an agent of change. Not all change is growth though. Some change is deterioration. Maintenance is a plan for deterioration as well. Ron Edmondson offers seven criteria to be a positive agent of change. You have to be willing to fail – Not all change will work. You can strategize and plan, …
Christian life and local church life are organic. It’s not a matter of believe this first, then do some things and later on do some other things. With faith comes a new life, and that new life serves and ministers near and far right from the very beginning. Both for individual Christians and local churches. …
Matt Perman offers a very relevant appraisal of the difference between Relief and Development aid, and then provides an important spiritual application as well. In both cases, the goal is to help the person back to self-sufficiency. But the strategies in each case are different — often profoundly so. Relief The goal of relief is …
A constructive by post Michael Kruger about a constantly challenging subject: when mercy ministry changes from being a means by which the church’s mission is expressed and actually becomes the total of the church’s mission. We must help others. But that help must be Christ-centered. Last year mgpc held an appeal to provide Bibles to …
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