As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“In the beginning, Genesis teaches us, God not only made matter, he made order. In creating the cosmos ex nihilo, he ordered it–that is, he gave form and structure and coherence and beauty and symmetry to it.” - Owen Strachen
“It’s sort of like saying we’re not going to take the time to mentor and train and raise up other really effective communicators. We’re going to take our best communicators and just multiply that by campuses [aided] by video screens” - Christian Post
“The report, ‘Above Reproach: A Study of the Ordination Practices of SBC Churches,’ was conducted by Jason A. Lowe, an associational mission strategist in Kentucky, in response to a Feb. 10 Houston Chronicle report on sexual abuse among Southern Baptist churches.” - BPNews
“Fewer than half of churchgoers (48 percent) agree with the statement, ‘I intentionally spend time with other believers to help them grow in their faith.’ This includes 19 percent who strongly agree. The same number (19 percent) disagree.” - BP News
“At the dawn of the attention industries, then, religion was still, in a very real sense, the incumbent operation, the only large-scale human endeavor designed to capture attention and use it.
“Following Russia’s ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses, evangelical Protestants have become the most-punished group under the country’s controversial “anti-missionary laws.” - Christianity Today
Reposted, with permission, from DBTS Blog.
The question of a pastoral “call to ministry,” reminiscent of God’s call of biblical prophets and apostles, has long been a issue with which ordination councils have been concerned. Many operate on the assumption that no one aspiring to the ministry may proceed without such a “call.”
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