Ed Stetzer writes a post about encouraging involvement in small group ministries: Through teaching biblically, promoting incessantly, and leading organizationally, we can encourage our brothers and sisters to get involved with small group ministries. +++ On promotion: Promote it incessantly People need to hear about small groups all the time. The more you can promote …
Local churches don’t need more people to come along to save them. They have the task of sharing with others about the one who has already saved them. From Sarah Condon: The fact of the matter is that most of our ideas about how to fix the church are terrible, my own included. We over-exaggerate …
This morning it occurred to me that in striving to nurture a grace-filled culture in a local church that there are two expressions of grace required. The first of those is a culture of grace that frees people to be who they are; liberated from carrying the pretences and masks of self-protection that make them …
True Gospel comfort is meant to be shared. From Christina Fox at the Gospel Coalition: This story of gospel comfort in 2 Corinthians reminds us that we’re all united to Christ, and that when he is at work in one of us, it affects all of us. God’s grace multiplies as it works through the …
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