These are helpful: 1. Personal preference drives decision-making 2. Emotion trumps mission 3. Sacrifice is non-existent 4. Any growth is mostly transfer growth 5. Innovation is dead or on life-support Carey Nieuwhof expands on these points here.
These are helpful: 1. Personal preference drives decision-making 2. Emotion trumps mission 3. Sacrifice is non-existent 4. Any growth is mostly transfer growth 5. Innovation is dead or on life-support Carey Nieuwhof expands on these points here.
If you’re attending worship with other Christians tomorrow and hearing a sermon, may it have this character: Preachers of the Word labor under three distinct requirements. First, they are to be faithful (pistoi). They are called to believe, and they are called only to believe. They are not called to know, or to be clever, …
Songs of preparation: From Heaven You Came (The Servant King) and What A Wonderful Saviour Is Jesus. Call to worship: Praise: Come O Fount Of Every Blessing. Corporate Prayer of Confession: Song of assurance, confession of faith, doxology: O Lord My God (How Great Thou Art); Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 60; Unto God Be Praise And …
Ray Ortlund writes about the messiness of real church. And the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin Real church is more than a human support group, more than empathy. The sacred blood of Jesus is here. And we bring no sin out into the light which his blood cannot cleanse away: …
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