Church & Ministry

“I asked several friends of The Gospel Coalition who currently serve, or have served, as lead pastors, What’s the best piece of advice or word of exhortation you’d give to a new elder?” - TGC

“A central figure of the 1980s televangelist scandals and an influential Southern gospel singer, Swaggart spent 70 years in the ministry.” - RNS

“The overlapping ‘head-honcho’ cultures of the Mexican caudillo pastor and the ‘my-way-or-the-highway’ authority granted pastors in many American churches can compound the already real challenge of inevitable transition to a new leader—making the principle of pastoral responsibility for that transition all the more critical.” - BJU Seminary

“While it won’t do us any good to play Chicken Little and recap the struggles experienced the world over since 2017, we have to be prepared for the new (and repeat) emergencies that will inevitably occur.” - C.Leaders

“The Messiah Conference, the world’s largest annual gathering of Messianic Jews and Israel-supporting Christians, gets underway in the U.S. on Monday, June 29, as antisemitism surges across America and globally.” - RNS/MJAA

“The senior pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina, was elected Tuesday evening at the PCA General Assembly, which is taking place this week in Chattanooga, Tennessee.” - CPost

“As the Michael Tait scandal grows, it’s becoming clear the industry gave cover for predators.” - World

“Pastors haven’t felt the need to practice church discipline in their congregations frequently, if at all. Most U.S. Protestant pastors (54%) say their churches haven’t formally disciplined a member since they became the pastor, nor was it done previously, as far as they know.” - Baptist Press

“Gateway Church and Grace Community Church [John MacArthur] are facing challenges with their long-time leaders missing.” - MinistryWatch

“somewhere in between the late middle ages and today, Christians began to detach their view of spiritual authority from the church and began to locate it the individual….Not only are various authorities pitted against one another, such as the spiritual against the political. All authorities began to be pitted against the individual and the individual conscience.” - Word by Word