The following questions come from an article by Karl Vaters about decluttering the body life of local churches. Any church that’s been around for a while has long-standing ministries that are loved and used all the time. They’re front-and-center. But we also have ministries that have not aged well. They’ve stopped working, but they still …

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This is a helpful list from Tim Brister: 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 & heals – both/and not either/or. People …

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Mark Buchanan writes about the way in divisions in churches start small… I don’t know what the Apostle Paul’s thorn in his side was. But I know one of mine: the will to be a slave to my own pettiness. Sometimes entire churches fall prey to this temptation. Pettiness becomes their governing principle. Their ethos. …

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