In Gospel-Driven Church Jared Wilson offers a critique of church growth that is not confined to a style or a size of congregation: I also want to be clear about what I don’t mean. When I use the word attractional, I am not referring to “contemporary” worship styles or megachurches. Some critics of the attractional …
Murray Campbell provides an encouraging report about a gathering of people from different churches in Melbourne. As part of that he writes of his appreciation for speaker Mark Dever asking that the lights in the auditorium be turned up. The practice has crept into Christian gatherings with increasing frequency and serves to decrease the corporate …
The Lord’s Supper is a meal with a unique vantage point. Christians look at three realities and are spiritually nourished in each. From Guy Prentiss Waters: The Lord’s Supper, therefore, always and simultaneously points in two directions, backward and forward. It points backward to the finished work of Christ on the cross. The Supper, in …
In a church plant (and, in a more limited way in a revitalisation) the leader has a considerable degree of discretion and control about how things are done. With an established church, particularly those of smaller to medium size, people have a sense of ownership and partnership that means the introduction of change needs to …
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