A Scout is Loyal, Friendly & Obedient

PaulF

Troop 113 gets it’s number from Psalm 1:1-3 which describes the sort of man that we pray our scouts will grow up to become. As part of the scouting program, we include a “scoutmaster minute” — a short devotional — at the end of each troop meeting. Our scouts range in age from 11 to 18, and are mainly homeschoolers (but with some conventional schoolers, too).

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Balancing the community role of the church with the church's responsibility to government

Chip Van Emmerik

Stumbled across this statement on a church website. The location is left blank to focus on the question rather than personalities.

We are a group of urban and suburban dwellers who are focused on re-weaving the fabric of a thriving community in ___________________________ in the spirit of Jesus Christ. In this area, we are working in the following areas: (7 items are listed including this bullet point)

Immigrants – We provide support for our undocumented neighbors to help them with life in this country.

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What Does "Unworthily" Mean?

Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson and friends recently launched a new blog at ChurchWorksMedia.com. Starting today, the blog will appear in our SI Blogroll. To mark the occasion, we commend the article below as a sample of what you’ll find there.—Editor

Gathering with the Lord’s church to remember Christ and His work is a vital part of Christian worship and an edifying exercise for both the corporate body and the individual Christian. Yet, Scripture protects the Lord’s Table in 1 Corinthians 11:27, where we are warned not to partake “unworthily” (KJV) or “in an unworthy manner” (ESV). That’s important—so important that people can suffer illness or even death for doing it (v. 30). But what does it mean?

For many, it means bondage. Countless believers have spent their entire lives afraid to partake of the Lord’s Table because they doubt their own worthiness. Communion has become a time when they remember themselves rather than (or at least more than) Christ. They’ve been trained (in part due to the KJV’s translation, in part due to careless teaching) to focus on their relative obedience or disobedience in the days preceding the Table. The result is pride, or despair, or fear—but not worship! Gordon Fee explains:

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