The following questions come from an article by Karl Vaters about decluttering the body life of local churches. Any church that’s been around for a while has long-standing ministries that are loved and used all the time. They’re front-and-center. But we also have ministries that have not aged well. They’ve stopped working, but they still …
Prepared for our local paper, The Border Watch. Sometimes the grass really is greener. Spending a week away in Sydney the grass is so lush and green everywhere. The trees throughout the suburbs are so large and foliage so dense. Watered by the abundant summer rain and encouraged by sunshine and humidity the plant life …
This is a helpful list from Tim Brister: Believers practice confession instead of trying to make an impression. People are defined by a lifestyle of repenting rather than pretending. You embrace truth at all costs, not agreeing for each others approval. Light exposes & wounds and love covers & heals – both/and not either/or. People …
Mark Buchanan writes about the way in divisions in churches start small… I don’t know what the Apostle Paul’s thorn in his side was. But I know one of mine: the will to be a slave to my own pettiness. Sometimes entire churches fall prey to this temptation. Pettiness becomes their governing principle. Their ethos. …
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