Do You (if in full time ministry) or does your pastor regularly meet with other pastors/leaders for prayer and fellowship?
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Do You (if in full time ministry) or does your pastor regularly meet with other pastors/leaders for prayer and fellowship?
Yes Votes: 13
No Votes: 2
Yes, but rarely or not frequently enough Votes: 2
Used to, but not now Votes: 0
Other Votes: 1
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How Far is Too Far?
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Were the "Good Old Days" Really So Good?
I came across this interesting observation from George Marsden’s Understanding Fundamentalism and Evengelicalism. It speaks to ssomething I have suspected for a very long time. Marsden refers to the period from roughly 1865 - 1890 as the “gilded age” of American evangelicalism:
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"The problem with much Christian worship in the contemporary world... it is not entertaining enough"
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“Worship characterized by upbeat rock music, stand-up comedy, beautiful people taking center stage, and a certain amount of Hallmark Channel sentimentality neglects one classic form of entertainment, the one that tells us, to quote the Book of Common Prayer, that ‘in the midst of life we are in death.’” Carl Trueman: Tragic Worship
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Ron and Shelly Hamilton's son Jonathan passes
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Man Identified In Death In At Downtown Greenville Parking Garage
Please be praying
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What if the conservative evangelical church world came to be dominated by a symbiotic network of high profile and charismatic leaders?
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“… everyday problems would be subject to mystification so as to place them beyond the competence of the minister and elders and deacons.”
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"It is time to abandon the evangelical quest to be 'relevant.' We need to be more cautious about letting cultural trends..."
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“We have an unfortunate tendency to chase what is cool in our culture and make it the centerpiece of our ministry (often denigrating other ministries that don’t share our vision). Meanwhile, we don’t realize that we are really about 10 years behind the cultural trends anyway. We are perennial late-comers to what our world thinks is hip.” The Arrogance of the Urban, Part 2
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Matt Olson is Back!!
It seems Matt id back!
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