Church & Ministry

“Despite the ongoing debates over gender roles, surveys show significant agreement in favor of female Sunday school teachers, worship leaders, speakers, and preachers.” - CToday

“Grace City Church, a fast-growing Hillsong Family church in Lakeland, Florida… announced that it would ask members to wear masks after the church’s husband and wife team of lead pastors revealed they had been infected with the new coronavirus.” - CPost

“We must not misunderstand the injunction against being quarrelsome. Clearly, by both precept and example, Paul did not envision the ideal pastor as a nice, soft, somewhat passive, universally liked, vaguely spiritual chaplain.

“While churches praise God from whom all blessings flow, they don’t praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” - CToday

“Stories of church outbreaks grow. Last week, a Pentecostal church in northeastern Oregon was linked to the state’s largest coronavirus outbreak to date — some 230 cases. The church held services in defiance of Oregon’s stay-at-home order.” - BPNews

“Third, pride can mean the kind of smugness identified often in our culture as arrogance, or braggadocio—a self-preoccupation that’s either insensitive to others or simply doesn’t care. Often relatively benign, in its more egregious forms it’s abrasive and even oppressive.” - Pastors & the Battle Against Pride

“The largest Christian group in the state joins calls to change the state flag.” - CToday

Related: Ligon Duncan: ‘Mississippi, Take Down That Flag’

“I will relinquish my ‘rights’ in order to serve others. Theologians have labeled Philippians 2:5-8 as ‘the great kenosis’ passage. It is a Greek word that describes the self-emptying of Jesus in order to live among us on His way to the cross. ‘Have this mind among yourselves…’” - Church Leaders

“The church has forgotten the old hymn ‘Come, We That Love the Lord.’ I’ve never heard this song in any worship service and I’ll bet you haven’t either. Try to hum the opening line.” - CToday