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  • Should Churches Participate In Formal Denominations?

    Should Churches Participate In Formal Denominations?

    Denominations within orthodox Christianity exist primarily because people disagree on the person and/or work of Jesus Christ. They don’t disagree about small things. Denominations make formal doctrinal statements concerning the authority of God in salvation and the responsibility of people. They make statements about the essential nature of the person and about whether salvation is…

  • What is the source and content of true praise?

    What is the source and content of true praise?

    Music is one of the more divisive things in the organized church and what causes this division is always the preferences of people. I have experienced many different styles of music in the church service and I can honestly say that I don’t know what it is like to be picky about the style of…

  • Should Churches Host Concerts (or any other events)?

    Should Churches Host Concerts (or any other events)?

    We are continuing our leadership series exploring the place of different methodological components of the local church. In the first section, we explored the different components of the main church services or meeting times. In this section, we are considering the different components of the local church’s overall ministry method. I have seen churches do…

  • Practicing Wisdom in the Specialized Ministries of the Church

    Practicing Wisdom in the Specialized Ministries of the Church

    We are continuing our leadership series exploring the place of different methodological components of the local church. In the first section, we explored the different components of the main church services or meeting times. In this section, we are considering the different components of the local church’s overall ministry method. In this section, we are…

  • What is a Biblical Church Business Meeting?

    What is a Biblical Church Business Meeting?

    We are moving into the second part of our current leadership series as we evaluate the methodological place of the different components of the church service. In this part, we will move beyond the Sunday gathering and observe the different components of our organization and think together about the Biblical place of church business meetings,…

  • How Long Should a Church Service Be?

    How Long Should a Church Service Be?

    Church services vary in length. The average timeframe seems to be from one to two hours while there are worship services as short as thirty minutes. It doesn’t come as a surprise that Scripture gives no explicit instruction on how long or short a Christ-centered worship service should be. What I will not do is…

  • Do you actually have faith in Christ?

    As the people of God, we will continue to grow and mature as we live: learning more and more what it means to have faith in Christ and follow Him. As we seek Christ more, I don’t want us to be confused about what it means to follow Christ or to mature in our faith.…

  • Why would God love us?

    I recently took a quiz on playbuzz to figure out which high school stereotype I fit into and it labeled me as a Jock. Here is the description in assigned to me: You’re every girl’s crush and every boy wants to crush your head. Obviously, you’re famous, handsome and what else? You’re the male version…

  • What in the world is holiness?

    Imagine you are a great painter and you have an idea for your next masterpiece. You pull out your sketch book to record the idea, and it looks phenomenal. Next, you pull out your canvas, paint the backdrop and a rough outline. You work from back to front painting the simple colors, then the more…

  • Is my worship pleasing to God?

    I like to think that I do a whole lot for my wife. I will wash the dishes (sometimes). I will take out the trash, mow the lawn, drive when she doesn’t want to and even kill the spiders that we find in the house. At home, there is still a shelf that needs to…