Yesterday I linked to a couple of items about IMAGINARY Pastor Brad Tower’s plans for his FICTIONAL church’s Vacation Bible School to ‘SHOCK and AWE’ the children. Today in a post called The Kids Love Me Pastor Brad shares how things are going. Along with an incident that arose from riding a minature buffalo, another …

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From Justin Taylor: Most of us are familiar with the “one another” commands of the New Testament. In the study guide for  Gospel in Life: Grace Changes Everything, Tim Keller offers a helpful taxonomy under the categories of affirming one another, sharing with one another, and serving one another. These form, he says, “nine ‘community-building …

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Jared Wilson writes [And I add a couple of thoughts in brackets]: If your church meets one or more of these, it might be a spiritual pep rally, a religious performance center, a Christian social club, or something else entirely, but it is probably not, biblically speaking, a gathering of the biblical church. You never …

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