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 …
How can a pastor encourage others to trust God unless trust for God is all they have? Mark Meynell draws on the biblical story of Jacob, who wrestling with God received both a blessing and damaged hip socket to invoke an image of the pastor as wounded healer. As someone once put it, never trust …
This sort of humility in gospel work is refreshing in a Christian culture that takes the circumstances of a move of God, distills them to a set of practices or a program, and then expects gospel fruit from emulating those circumstances. I like intentionality, but pause at the point where the program is depended upon …
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