Church & Ministry

“More than half of evangelicals will be back in person, but most Catholics and black and mainline Protestants are still waiting to return.” - C.Today

Related: Pew Research report

Are We Truly Trusting God?

“Partisan … advance Christian ends with extrabiblical, and sometimes unbiblical, methods. Silent churches rightly reject the partisan model but embrace a kind of quietism, resulting in silence on political issues about which Christians really do need moral and scriptural guidance.” - TGC

“One of the trends I’ve noticed when it comes to matters of faith deconstruction is that many of those who talk about their deconstructions have deconstructed from the worst parts of Christian subculture, and rightfully so.” - LifeWay

“Elders at Crabapple First Baptist Church condemned both the ‘extreme and wicked’ actions and the purported motives of a church member who allegedly killed eight people in a series of shootings, calling them a direct contradiction of his professed faith in Christ and the church’s teachings.” - BPNews

“Is it possible that we have a generation of people who grew up in Christian homes and made a ‘decision’ that you’d have to be an idiot to say no to, but have never felt the convicting work of the Holy Spirit and the drawing (and keeping) power of the Father, the covenant-keeping God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?” - Olinger

“It was Augustine who described the church as ‘a hospital for sinners.’ He said it would be very strange if people were to criticize hospitals because the patients were sick.” - Colin Smith

“As the church’s global growth continues, leaders must disentangle its ‘health message’ from views on salvation.” - C.Today

“The elders of Crabapple First Baptist Church issued a statement today (March 17) expressing grief after a series of Atlanta-area shootings yesterday that left eight people dead.” - BPNews

On Prov. 15:12 “It would do us well, as institutions and individuals, to consider what areas of our lives and our systems that we’re not willing to run towards the microscope. If we’ll listen to our anger it can help us. Often it is those truth-tellers which stir us up to anger that will give us the key to understanding our blind spots.” - SBC Voices