The 2011 Annual Reports and Financial Statements of Mount Gambier Presbyterian Church went into distribution yesterday. If you like you can read them here. (It is a 2meg size file, if you’re on slow download) Editing the document last week meant that I got to spend a very pleasant and encouraging time revisiting the blessings …

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Some Christians believe they’re discerning about where others are at spiritually, when they’re actually judgmental. Simplest way of identifying this tendency is to recall whether the individual ever speaks in concrete terms about their own sin and the areas of their own spiritual life with which they are currently struggling. And not just in a …

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A local church can be described in one of three ways: Movement, Monument or Mausoleum. (To which one of the commenters on Ortlund’s post adds a fourth: Memory) And there’s always a momentum, fueled by the hearts of the humans who are part of that church, which will seek to move it from the first …

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A pastor is not the accuser in residence of the church he serves. I hope those of you who talk to me and read this blog think that mgpc is a wonderful place to be part of. It is. Not because we don’t have problems or because we never do the wrong thing. But because …

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