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Category Archives: Emergent Church
The hypocritical dead Church, pt. 1
You have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Continue reading
Posted in Church, Church building, Church growth, Church history, Church Leadership, Church membership, elders in the Church, Emergent Church, Local Church, Market-Driven Churches, Mega Church, Revelation 2-3, Seven Churches
Tagged 3, Church growth, Revelation 2, Seeker Churches, Seven Churches
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Friendship between the friends of Jesus of Nazareth
How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things? Continue reading
How should we respond?
Political action is necessary but…. Continue reading
Posted in Change, Character, Christian worldview, Church, Church and State, Church Leadership, Culture, Democracy, Democrats, Emergent Church, Evil in the world, False Church, Political Correctness, Politics, Wisdom, Witness, Worldview
Tagged Church and politics, political action for Christians
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Do you understand common grace?
How do we remain serious about lines between belief and unbelief (between those who live in the boundaries of saving grace and those who do not), while at the same time showing active appreciation for all that is good, beautiful and outside of those boundaries? Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, Church Leadership, Common Good, Common grace, Communication, Community, Culture, Culture of Honor, elders in the Church, Emergent Church, Emerging Leaders, Evangelicals, Evangelism, Fundamentalism, Leadership, Local Church, Pastors, Reformed Theology, Walking with God, Wisdom, Witness, Younger Evangelicals
Tagged christianity and the world, Common Grace, evangelism and social concern, General Revelation, seeking the common good, social action in the church
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Did you encounter God in Church?
When truth about God is declared it should jolt those who live outside of His truth. Do you want these people walking out of Church saying, “That was pretty cool.” “It didn’t even feel like Church”? Continue reading
When the Church markets the gospel
“Does the gospel of the market-driven church redeem the lost or reinforce trends, deliver from sin or affirm the self, reconcile people to God or appeal to religious consumers?” “Tailoring the gospel to fit the consumer distorts the gospel, discounts … Continue reading
Help for those who teach Scripture
We evangelicals unapologetically endorse the Bible as the word of God. This means that teachers of the Bible should take seriously the Apostle Paul’s charge to Timothy to “do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Bible, Bible from God, Bibliology, Bloggers, Call to ministry, Calling, Church growth, Church Leadership, Church membership, Communication, Disciple-making, Doctrine of election, Ecclesiology 101, Elders, Emergent Church, Emerging Leaders, Exegesis, Leadership, Life of a pastor, Local Church, Pastors, Small Group leaders
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A biblical view of the Church
The right questions is, in Scripture, what does God say the church is? Based on that, we need to ask, where should it go and how should it behave? Continue reading
Posted in Church, Church discipline, Church Leadership, Church membership, Church Planting, Ecclesiology 101, Elders, Emergent Church, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Life of a pastor, Local Church, Pastors
Tagged Biblical view of Church, Church, Ecclesiology, Elders, God's plan for the Church, Pastors
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Overview of leadership in the local Church
A key question answered Does a clear pattern for Church government emerge from the pages of the New Testament (NT)? I believe it does. The NT reveals a pattern in which each local Church was placed under the spiritual care of a plurality of godly leaders … Continue reading
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