This Victorian era prison chapel placed the congregants/prisoners in seperate booths so they couldn’t see one another. Today they just have worship with the lights out instead. Though I accept that putting a roomfull of malcontents together in a dark room would have made for a very risky environment. These days we could market it …
Churches should be places of thankful remembrance; the shared knowledge of God’s faithful blessings in the past are a great encouragement to present and future ministry. Thankful remembrance should not give way to nostalgia. Thinking that the best is behind, or that present or future hope are only attainable by a return to what was …
Sam Rainer observes the impacts on congregational life and ministry activity that flows from a contemporary change toward less frequent attendance at corporate worship by active Christians. The reality challenges traditional practices of pastoral care and congregational communication. For example: The church feels smaller but is actually larger. Consider a church that has four hundred …
Christians will gather together tomorrow to worship God, give witness to the power of Jesus at work in their lives, and to serve one another. The church is not a holding pattern, it is God’s plan to reveal his good news of salvation to the world. From Michael Jensen: …local church ministry is worth it …
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