Art Linkletter once saw a little boy drawing a picture. He was furiously coloring away with an intense look on his face. Linkletter asked him, “Son, what are you drawing?” The little boy replied, “A picture of God.” Linkletter informed the lad that no one knows what God looks like, to which the boy confidently [...]
Archive for the ‘Church Ministries’ Category
Five Important Ministries of the Church (Acts 2:42-47) Part 1: Teaching God’s Word
Posted: April 17, 2012 in Church Ministries, SermonsTags: Andrew Sullivan, Erwin Lutzer, follow Jesus, Forget the church, John MacArthur, John S. Hammett, Newsweek, St. Francis of Assisi, Warren W. Wiersbe
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How to Resolve Christian Conflict
Posted: April 10, 2012 in Church MinistriesTags: Ian Murrey's The Forgotten Spurgeon, J. Oswald Sanders' Spiritual Leadership, Jonathan Edwards, Matthew Henry, Vance Havner
More than one hundred years ago, in the spring of 1894, the Baltimore Orioles came to Boston to play a routine baseball game. But what happened that day was anything but routine. The Orioles’ John McGraw got into a fight with the Boston third basemen. Within minutes all the players from both teams had joined [...]
How to Increase the Giving in Your Church
Posted: April 5, 2012 in Church MinistriesTags: Building The Church: A Comprehensive Manuel for Church Administration by Joseph Miller, church evangelism, Mark Dever's The Deliberate Church, southern baptists
Joseph Miller reports that national surveys of evangelical churches indicate that 80 percent of the giving in those churches comes from 20 percent of the constituency. The balance of 20 percent comes from another 30 percent of the people, leaving 50 percent of the constituency contributing nothing. Miller also cites statistics the Southern Baptists released [...]
Fulton Street Prayer Meeting Revival
Posted: February 15, 2012 in Church MinistriesTags: Fulton Street Revival, Jeremiah Lanphier, Something Happens When Churches Pray, Warren W. Wiersbe
Warren Wiersbe has a book entitled Something Happens When Churches Pray in which he describes the blessings of God on the praying early church in the book of Acts. Later in 1857, something happened when churches prayed. What happened was a national revival of prayer meetings. Jeremiah Lanphier started a noon hour weekly prayer meeting [...]
The Church’s Missional Statement by Christ
Posted: January 19, 2012 in Church MinistriesTags: Bob Roberts, building a house in mexico, Ed Stetzer, first easter, foreign missions, glocal, Mark Driscoll, missional churches, power of the holy spirit
All nationalities should be welcomed and accepted in our churches. This is what makes the church Missional. Missional church researcher Ed Stetzer warns against being missional in wanting to reach your local culture but not being Missions in wanting to reach those not in your culture. Some Missional churches are focused on the local not the global. [...]
The New Fundamentals of the Faith
Posted: October 13, 2011 in Church Ministries, MusicTags: and southern baptist., Armenian, Calvinism, fundamentals of the faith, independent baptist, slacks, The Fundamentals of the Faith by R. A.Torrey, The New Fundamentals of the Faith
A friend of mine sent this story to me about the new fundamentals of the faith: I was walking across a bridge recently. I spied this fellow who looked like he was ready to jump off. So, I thought I’d try to stall him until the authorities showed up. “Don’t jump!” I said. “Why not?” [...]
Four Important Church Documents
Posted: April 26, 2011 in Church Ministries, Pastoral TheologyTags: Christian Law Association, http://www.startchurch.com/, John Piper, Mark Dever's The Deliberate Church
Because of government intrusion into church affairs and the potential of lawsuits, churches need at least three official documents: a church constitution, a church covenant, and a statement of faith. A fourth document which is also being recommended from such organizations as Christian Law Association is articles of incorporation. Joseph Miller says “in an opinion [...]
Book Review of Building The Church: A Comprehensive Manuel for Church Administration by Joseph Miller
Posted: April 14, 2011 in Book Reviews, Church MinistriesTags: Building The Church: A Comprehensive Manuel for Church Administration by Joseph Miller, Mark Dever's The Deliberate Church
Joseph Miller reports that national surveys of evangelical churches indicate that 80 percent of the giving in those churches comes from 20 percent of the constituency. The balance of 20 percent comes from another 30 percent of the people, leaving 50 percent of the constituency contributing nothing. Miller also cites statistics the Southern Baptists released [...]
Guidelines for Calling a Pastor or Pastoral Courtship
Posted: March 15, 2011 in Church Ministries, Pastoral TheologyTags: Calling a Pastor to a church
When a church has need of a pastor they should go courting a potential candidate. Here are some brief suggested guidelines that certainly can be modified according to the need and policy of the church. 1. The deacons form a Search Committee or sometimes the deacons are the Search Committee. 2. An Interim pastor is [...]
