Encouraging observations from Tim Brister: You know you are living in gospel community when… 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 & …
I’m going to be looking at Renewing Neighborhoods, Restoring Lives, maybe you’d like to as well. Sojourn Community Church work through the ways in which the Gospel creates empathetic caring without empathetic caring replacing the Gospel as central to local church ministry and mission. It’s available in pdf and Kindle file versions.
This graphic features Open Door’s 2014 ranking of the fifty countries where persecution of Christians is most severe. You download a (larger image size) pdf copy with further information here. More information at this page.
Phillip Jensen exhorts preachers and congregations to commit to drawing closer together through the life-changing activity of the ministry of the Word in corporate gathering. …preaching has other functions in church life. It engages and unites the congregation in our common discipleship. As we sit week by week together under the word of God we …
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