Dr. Phillip Mills writes about the current infatuation with many of the current-popular church growth approaches. Certainly we can question whether it is God’s intention that every church turn into a Mega Church which I sincerely doubt. But what Mills does is question whether we are worrying about the quality of growth as [...]
The other day I was reading an internet discussion where a Christian condemned the promiscuous lyrics of a popular musical artist. The Christian said that the artist was a tool of the devil in the propogation of anti-Christian lyrics and the promotion of a anti-Christian lifestyle in the music.
Interestingly enough the other Christians came to [...]
It is interesting that Christianity has become more and more a “individual” thing between me and God.  This mindset causes us to ignore the command to “neglect not the assembling of ourselves together.” (Hebrews 10:35) We come more and more to the selfish conclusion that I don’t need to be among others, not realizign the [...]
There is a new word that has begun to arise amongst us. It is the word “unchurched.” The word is meant to imply that we should stop trying to preach to the “churched” who presumably already have God, and spend all of our efforts (or at least most of them) on the “unchurched.”  It [...]
Over the last few weeks a theme has been coming up more and more, at least to me. That is the idea of Adventists having a vested interest in things getting worse. Therefore, they overemphasize “bad” things and underemphasize “good” things. For example, when we find out that the crime rate may have gone down [...]
It is assumed true by just about everyone in the church right now. you don’t even have to prove it. The church is full of legalistic finger pointers who are attempting to steal our assurance of salvation. They are running the church. They condemn you for eating cheese, they make those who are caught in [...]
This is the question asked by Steve Addision at his blog. In Australia, according to the article, more than 60% of Adventist and Pentecostal members tithe.
The question the article asks is why do they do it, While those on the mainline have much lower levels of tithe returners?” The writer gives two possibilities…one is that the Pentecostals and Adventists are closer to a movement than an institution.
The church is not a place for the righteous, it is a hospital for sinners.
So goes the popular saying that has taken on almost cliche-like proportions in many of our churches. The idea is that anyone who expects church members to live differently than those who are not members.
The statement is a helpful thing to keep in mind if it reminds us of our own hypocracy or even lack of understanding that the Christian life is one of growth and that we cannot expect new people to be as far
Wrong, Right, or Irrelevant? You know there is no greater crime than to preach an irrelevant message. An irrelevant message is by definition unimportant and a waste of time.
A while ago I ran a poll asking what size church did you prefer. The majority chose a church between 1 and 350.
