Pastoring a Transient Church
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“I pastor a transient church. Seemingly every week, I hear that yet another member plans to move. Many members are here for one-to-three years.” - 9 Marks
Which Way Will We Go? The SBC’s Problem with Women
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“There are Southern Baptist Churches that are no longer allowing women to vote… We are acting like women are the problem in our churches.” - SBC Voices
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Evangelistic Events or the Alternative?
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“God can use programs. I know people who have come to faith at evangelistic events…. But I don’t think programs are the most effective or even the primary way we should do evangelism.” - 9 Marks
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Teaching Church History in Our Churches
(Reposted from 2021. Original comments included.)
History is boring! How many times has that been said, mostly by schoolchildren who have to learn names, dates, and events for an exam? History can be boring, but it doesn’t need to be.
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Barna: “adults residing in metro areas don’t see the church as responsible for addressing community issues.”
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“This article shares data from Inside the Urban Church—a Barna report created in partnership with World Impact—to further explore what role the church has in the city.” - Barna
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On Fellowship, Part 5: Covering Both the Bases
Read the series.
Biblical fellowship is a two-sided coin, or a two-edged sword, or a two-way street, or something. (The title of this post strongly implies that I don’t know anything at all about baseball.)
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On Fellowship, Part 4: Measuring Success
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Last time we considered a passage from Ephesians 5 that provided some basic principles to underlie our exercise of fellowship. This time I’d like to consider a different Pauline passage, one that helps us recognize when we’re succeeding.
In the opening paragraph of Philippians 2, Paul exhorts the church to live out their unity in Christ in several specific ways—
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On Fellowship, Part 3: Getting There
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It’s time to look a little more closely at what we’re actually doing as we minister our gifts to one another in the church.
A passage I find helpful in this regard is the opening paragraph of Ephesians 5, which is just one sentence with two main verbs that point us to how we conduct our relationships in the church.
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“A recent Church Answers poll found that only 1% of churches have an ongoing evangelism effort.”
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“We have responses from tens of thousands of church members across the nation. The data below is from the last five years and represents multiple denominations.” - Church Answers
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On Fellowship, Part 2: What It’s For
Last time we noted that from the beginning we’ve been designed for fellowship, for interpersonal relationships—and that for our time in history, the church is a significant part of God’s plan for that. He even commands us to keep at it.
OK, if God says I’m supposed to fellowship, then I will.
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