Church & Ministry

“Often times, definitions of a missionary include some variation of the phrase, ‘one who goes overseas in order to help others.’ However, this type of definition doesn’t grasp the true concept of a missionary’s work and tends to alienate certain disciplines and people who may actually fall into the realm of missions. So what would an accurate definition be? One who is sent. … (Romans 10:14-16)”.

When a pastor with a D.Min. passes his degree off as an earned Ph.D he engages in chicanery

Most clueless lay people think “Dr. So and So” is a bona-fide academic, even though he only has, a good and useful, D.Min.

Babylon Bee (satire): SOMEWHERE IN IRAQ—Stating that he “just doesn’t feel like [he’s] being fed” by the persecuted underground church he’s been attending for the past three years, local man Saleem Haddad reported Wednesday that he’s planning on trying out a competing church just 30 miles across a deadly patch of open desert that is covered with live explosives.

Douglas Wilson: “[T]he evangelical church is still (thank God) predominately heterosexual … but our culture of evangelical leadership is thoroughly gay. We have chosen as a template for leadership one that selects for softness, as though we wanted representatives for Herod’s courts (Matt. 11:8).”

5 Tell-Tale Signs Your Congregation Is Insider-Focused

“A new survey suggests the logistics of going to services can be the biggest barrier to participation—and Americans’ faith in religious institutions is declining.” The Atlantic

“1. It’s fundamentally dishonest. Covert missionaries say one thing to one group and something entirely different to another. They tell churches back home they’re going ‘over there’ to convert people.” CNN

Christianity Is Growing but It Is Shifting

Babylon Bee (satire): Turner also expressed reservations about the church’s worship style and its effect on his millennial peers. Drawing on his recent five-page research paper, he also suggested Eastern Orthodoxy’s ancient liturgy has much to offer in this regard.