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 …
I knew a lady who hated the word ‘stuff’. When we meet as one of the small groups that she belonged to and one of us uses the word we all fall silent for a second and then, having heard her remonstration about using that word echo in our minds, all laugh and try to …
Jared Wilson writes against the niceties that compel Christians (who should no better) to maintain appearances of being okay. If there’s one place on earth everyone should feel free not to be okay, it’s the church: I know the reasons we don’t live transparently with each other. We’re afraid. We’re embarrassed. We don’t want to …
Gathering together with other Christians in worship is an act of encouragement to them. And that’s before you even do anything else. From Jared Wilson: AS AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO OTHERS Your church attendance is an encouragement to others. This is especially true in smaller to medium-sized congregations, but it’s even true in very large local …
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