Do you need the Church?

Alone time with God is important. No. It’s essential! But can spiritual transformation as intended by God occur in isolation? Is it enough to rely on quiet time with God?  Or, do you need other believers to be all that God intends for you to be? How important is the community of believers to spiritual [...]

A Church leader must be husband of one wife

Steve Cornell
What does this mean? Does it require Church leaders to be married men thus excluding single men from eldership? The Catholic view understands it as marriage to the Church in support of their practice of celibacy for the priesthood. Some believe it was meant to forbid polygamy. Or, does it exclude those who are [...]

Are you weak or strong? See the test below

Two Groups found in most Churches:
1. Weak in faith- (Romans 14:1;15:1)
2. Strong in Faith (Romans 15:1)
Weak: Those who feel bound to abide by rules and traditions that are not required by God’s absolutes.
Strong: Those who do not feel bound by rules and traditions outside of God’s absolutes.
The weak of Romans 14 & 15 were [...]

Ministry with Grace and Truth

Our world is a broken place filled with broken people and I often get a front row seat to the brokenness people experience. Gratefully, I have even been able to help some find their way through their trials.  There are times when I feel inadequate to encourage people through their pain. But God always gives me [...]

Transform society: Older Women Teaching Younger Women

3Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be [...]

Does God hate visionary dreaming about the Church?

Steve Cornell
In view of the current reshaping of the role of government in America, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book “Life Together” would make great reading and discussion material for Church leaders. Bonhoeffer passionately pursued a recovery of the visibility of the church in the midst of the demise of Christendom. He might not be considered an inadequate guide [...]

A Neglected Ministry in the Church: Watching Over One Another

by Steve Cornell
Those who turn to God to receive His gift of salvation can be confident that God will forgive them for their sins and preserve them as His children all their days on earth. This great truth has been titled, “The perseverance of the saints.” It is the belief that all who genuinely experience [...]

Missional Living: Four considerations

“Christianity without Mission is Christianity no longer.”  John R. W. Stott
I. The Model: The Incarnation- John 1:1-3, 14; 17:18; 20:21; II Cor. 8:9; Philippians 2:3-10 “A Kenosis mentality for mission”
cf. I Corinthians 9:19-22 “Culturalizing without compromising”  “Permeation without contamination” “Identifying without losing our identity”
Two needs:
1.) to break out of the safety of our Christian [...]

Lessons on Leadership:

By Steve Cornell

If good is good enough, don’t follow this advice
To lead people from being good to being great requires inspiration. Good leaders inspire others toward greatness through their leadership style. Rarely is this accomplished through a negative and discouraging leadership style (often a mistake of younger leaders).  Seasoned and successful leaders realize that a [...]

“Watching Over One Another” (Hebrews 3:12-14)

by Steve Cornell