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Decluttering can be painful. It’s hard work. It’s messy. And because we’ve been trained to maintain instead of change, people’s feelings are often an issue when it comes to eliminating traditions, ministries, and events. If you proceed, do so with wisd…
Sarai Rice says congregations often evaluate pastors and staff in ways that lead to a lot of stress but little clarity or accountability. She offers five suggestions for how churches can reduce the stress and structure evaluations to enable pastors and their teams to pursue the church’s vision with energy and imagination. Pastors can be […]
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Drawing on research conducted by the Barna Group, Jeremy Steele outlines some of the turnoffs for millennials when they visit new churches. An outdated digital presence and a lack of diversity top the list. To celebrate the Lewis Center’s anniversary, we are highlighting Leading Articles — some of our most popular posts of the past […]
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Revelation 3:9
I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars–I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.
Was this group of people…
Pneuma 26,2_prelims 2/27/06 11:59 AM Page i PNEUMA The Pentecostal Theology EDITOR Frank D. Macchia, Vanguard University of Southern California MANAGING EDITOR Ed Rybarczyk,…
I would like to know if the Philip who baptized the eunuch in Acts 8 is Philip the disciple or the deacon mentioned in Acts 6
This question and its ensuing discussion continues. Do I really need to be a member of a church? We need to first separate the concept of church membership from other types of organizational membership. Church membership is not like civic club membership, even though many civic organizations do have altruistic purposes. Church membership is definitely…
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It reads in Luke 10:2 (parallel is Matt 9:37-38):
Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
I’ve en…
I recently decided to read the Apocrypha. Sounded interesting. Anyway, when I got to The Book of Bel and The Dragon, there was this verse, which struck me as particularly interesting:
1:27 Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and did…