Recommended reading for new converts
I’m putting together a list of resources for new adult converts (or old ones who’ve not been properly trained). Where would you start and what books would you recommend? Maybe give me your top 3. :-)
The Importance of Agreeing to Disagree Within the Life of a Church
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“Surrendering our rights and agreeing to disagree is vital to the unity in which Jesus has called his people to live, worship, and serve him together.” - John Ellis
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How Biblical Metaphors for the Church Require Church Membership
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“If we unpack all of what Scripture teaches about the local church, we’ll find that church membership is in fact in every nook and cranny of the New Testament.
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What does Genesis 31:27 teach us about music?
The earliest explicit statement in Scripture about music is
Genesis 4:21 And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
The next explicit one is Genesis 31:27,
Genesis 31:27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
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Harvest Bible Chapel says no tithes or severance will go to former senior pastor who was fired
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“No tithes, offerings or severance pay have gone to Harvest Bible Chapel’s former senior pastor, and he won’t see any in the future, according to the latest update from the popular megachurch.” - Chicago Tribune
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Died: Warren Wiersbe, Preachers’ Favorite Bible Commentator
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“The prolific author and pastor taught Christians how to ‘Be’ in the Word.” - Christianity Today
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The Church Treasurer: From Kluge to the Cloud
Read the series.
Kludge. Also kluge: “’An ill-assorted collection of poorly-matching parts, forming a distressing whole’ (Granholm); esp. in Computing, a machine, system, or program that has been improvised or ‘bodged’ together; a hastily improvised and poorly thought-out solution.”1
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How Should Christians Respond to the Death of Rachel Held Evans?
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“RHE had severe allergic reactions several weeks ago to antibiotics … After a series of unexplained seizures, doctors placed her in a medically induced coma. On Thursday of this week, according to her husband, she took a turn for the worse and passed away [May 4].” - John Ellis
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Illustrations in Preaching, Part 1
Third Series of Lectures to My Students
The Art of Illustration: Being Addresses Delivered ot the students of The Pastor’s College, Metropolitan Tabernacle
By C. H. Spurgeon, 1905*
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