Some churches are opposed to change because they’re invested more in themselves than they are in the Gospel. But some gospel grounded churches are put off change because of the way it’s introduced. Karl Vaters writes at Leadership Journal: Churches can handle change. If you’ve tried and failed to change things at your church, that …
Trigger Warning: There’s a fair chance you’ve been through something like these if you’re a pastor or church member. Thom Rainer harvests responses from a Twitter survey about church conflicts caused by silly things. The comment thread is providing more examples. If you read it and are thinking “These don’t sound so bad compared to …
Trying to lead a local church to have less organised activities seems to be a constant struggle. Jared Wilson has an extended post which includes ten observations about the tendency to have lots going on. Here’s a few of them: 2. Over-programming creates an illusion of fruitfulness that may just be busyness. 4. Over-programming runs …
A winsome and succinct summary of why some professing Christians apply the covenant sign of baptism to their children from Kevin DeYoung. His conclusion: …we come to administer the sacrament of baptism to this child today with the weight of church history to encourage us and the example of redemptive history to confirm our practice. …
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