A post on the St. Helen’s Bishopsgate blog makes the point that the key story of the Bible is about relationships. Christianity is not acceptance of an intellectual proposition, it is the experience of a relationship that God adopts humans into through his son, Jesus. From the post: …the Bible is a love story. But …
Thom Rainer attempts to describe how churches can become focussed on their activities to the detriment of mission and ministry. He has eight points. Activities became synonymous with ministry. Programs and ministries are added regularly, but few or none are ever deleted. Programs and ministries become sacred cows. The alignment question is not asked on …
From Jeff Vanderstelt: “We as a church need to grow in what it looks like to speak the truths of the gospel into the everyday stuff of life. To speak the truth of Jesus’s life, death, resurrection, present work on our behalf before God the Father, and future return to make all things new.” The …
Balanced Christian teaching should invoke three areas, respecting their relative order, while maintaining the necessity of all three to be active. The three are: what Jesus has done for us and to us; what Jesus enables and empowers us to do; and what we must do as our response to his work for us and …
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