Church & Ministry

“While the PCA was not able to assemble this year due to COVID-19, today the study committee released their report on human sexuality for denominational consideration.

“This guy, angry that Grace Community Church yielded to the 9th Circuit Court’s ruling banning church meetings in California [last] weekend, Tweets at me: “An unjust law need not be followed. I’m appalled at how many people who profess to believe Scripture echo that sentiment.” - Phil Johnson

“Evangelical Christian Baptist Church “leaders said they followed safety guidelines and disinfected the entire building before the service. They also provided hand sanitizer to attendees and required that people stay 1.5 meters (five feet) apart, per regulations.” - CL

“Stay in contact with local authorities to best understand the situation in your area and when it would be safe to open. Work to limit the spread by protecting staff and congregants and offering other options like continued livestreaming for high risk individuals.” - F&T

Kent Brandenburg: When my wife and I came to California in 1987, I started as an evangelist and became a pastor. I’m becoming an evangelist again in 2020. I am a missionary again. The church I started in 1987 in the San Francisco Bay Area is sending my wife and I to Jackson County, Oregon to evangelize. We want to reproduce our church.

“When a law would infringe on Americans’ fundamental freedoms, such as the freedom of religious exercise or the freedom of assembly, it is subject to what the law calls ‘strict scrutiny,’ which means that the courts will find a law unconstitutional unless the government can show three things…” - 9 Marks

“Derek Rishmawy and Cameron Cole discuss whether or not evangelism will change as America becomes post-Christian. They address: Growing trends…Careful, intentional use of our Christian language…The confusion of Christian jargon…” - TGC

“If it is not about a place, what is it about? That question forces us to consider what ‘it’ is. What is the point, the purpose, of Falls Creek? The purpose is bringing lost teenagers to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ….We don’t have to go to the Arbuckle Mountains to do this work of evangelism.” - BPNews

“Group 1 contains those who don’t feel vulnerable, haven’t lost anyone they love, don’t know anyone who has suffered from Covid-19, and don’t live in a region strongly impacted. Group 1 feels oppressed by government overreach. Group 2 contains those who are vulnerable, who have lost a close relationship, who know someone who has suffered from Covid-19, and who live near regions that have been seriously impacted.

“Christian preaching, as it should be preaching of the gospel, must substantially involve the preaching of justification.” - Ref21