With all the sensitivity that can be mustered, it has to be said on a regular basis that it’s so important for folk who are part of a local church to want to engage visitors and newcomers before and after the service. Spending thirty or forty minutes talking to exactly the same person each week …
This week’s Border Watch article. I ended up using a different starting idea than the one I alluded to last Friday. What Makes A Local? It’s the sort of conversation you often fall into in a country town. You ask someone if they’re a local. No, they reply, they’re not a local, they moved here …
Some thoughts on the sample of three people impacted by the Gospel in Phillipi in Acts 16 from J.D. Greear. It’s wonderful too, to realise that these three very different people all found themselves in one Christian community because of Jesus. Acts 16 contains the stories of three people who were unlikely candidates for the …
Skye Jethani muses about the development of modern cruise ships from ocean liners and how that change can be identified in the life of some contemporary churches which have become destinations where rather than “viewing the church as simply a means to an end (connecting people with God), they made the church an end in …
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