Kevin DeYoung elected moderator of PCA General Assembly

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“The senior pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina, was elected Tuesday evening at the PCA General Assembly, which is taking place this week in Chattanooga, Tennessee.” - CPost

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Lifeway research: churches rarely discipline members

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“Pastors haven’t felt the need to practice church discipline in their congregations frequently, if at all. Most U.S. Protestant pastors (54%) say their churches haven’t formally disciplined a member since they became the pastor, nor was it done previously, as far as they know.” - Baptist Press

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What Is Spiritual Authority? Neither Authoritarianism nor Anti-Institutionalism

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“somewhere in between the late middle ages and today, Christians began to detach their view of spiritual authority from the church and began to locate it the individual….Not only are various authorities pitted against one another, such as the spiritual against the political. All authorities began to be pitted against the individual and the individual conscience.” - Word by Word

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Why Online Church Isn’t Enough

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“To those who stayed home simply because it’s more comfortable, I challenge you to reconsider.” - P&D

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Nearly half of US Evangelical pastors are bivocational: study

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“Forty-seven percent of Evangelical pastors work bivocationally, compared to 35% of clergy overall, said Lifeway, which compiled data from the National Survey of Religious Leaders (NSRL) …. The national average increased from 28% in a similar survey conducted in 2001.” - CPost

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Biblical Truths vs. Ecumenical Unity

“And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him to his face and said to King Jehoshaphat, ‘Should you help the wicked and love those who hate Yahweh and so bring wrath on yourself from Yahweh?’” (2 Chronicles 19:2, LSB)

Working well with others is something we were hopefully taught as small children. Learning to get along with people, even people we don’t often agree with, is a mark of maturity and a necessity in any healthy society.

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Make Disciples of All Nations

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“This article was produced by Claude.AI based on a message preached by pastor Johnson on June 15, 2025. The audio and video will be available later this week.” - P&D

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