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. [...]
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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
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The New Fundamentals of the Faith
Posted: October 13, 2011 in Church MinistriesTags: 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 [...]
Ministry Opportunity in Costa Rica
Posted: July 6, 2010 in Church MinistriesTags: Camp Brittney in Costa Rica, Gospel Baptist Church
Twenty seven of us from our church, Gospel Baptist Church, went to Costa Rica last week, June 26-July 4th, to do mission work. I preached in Pastor Jeremy’s church and our young adults ministered in Children’s church. Our main goal, however, was to build a fourth cabin for the campers who started camp at Camp Brittney on [...]
Worship Wars: Worshiping How We Worship instead of Worshiping God
Posted: May 20, 2010 in Church Ministries, Pastoral Theology, The ChurchTags: Albert Mohler, Benjamin Keach, Ed Stetzer, He Is Not Silent, John Hammett's Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches, Mark Driscoll, Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Church, Willow Creek, Worship Wars
GBC Sermon Audio – May 19 & 26, 2010 I heard this illustration from two different preachers on the controversy of church music and thought some of you would apprecate it and may want to file it away for preaching on Romans 14 and Christian Liberty. That is what I did. When I heard it [...]
How to Observe the Lord’s Supper
Posted: April 29, 2010 in Church Ministries, Pastoral TheologyTags: Lord's Supper, Robert Anderson's Effective Pastor: A Practical Guide to the Ministry
Though procedures vary on serving the Lord’s Supper here is a very basic way until the pastor and church develop other alternatives. More elaborate instruction can be found in Robert Anderson’s The Effective Pastor: A Practical Guide to the Ministry. I discuss the meaning of the Lord’s Supper at Different Views on Baptism, Part Four: Transubstantiation. [...]
“The Church Business Meeting” for Dummies
Posted: April 13, 2010 in Church Ministries, Pastoral TheologyTags: Robert's Rules of Order, The Church Business Meeting
It is almost 7:00 p.m. and you are about to chair your church’s business meeting. You ask yourself, “Self, what if someone wants to amend the original motion, how will I handle it?” “Self, what if the discussion gets a little out of hand and I need to table the motion in order to do some [...]
Does “The husband of one wife” disqualify all divorced men from pastoring?
Posted: January 14, 2010 in Church Ministries, Pastoral TheologyTags: A. Duane Litfin, D. Edmond Hiebert, Homer Kent, Robert C. Anderson's The Effective Pastor, Wayne Grudem
Robert C. Anderson writes, “For centuries it has been debated whether or not the biblical injunction that an elder or overseer be the ‘husband of one wife’ means that a divorced person may never have any place within the professional ministry” (The Effective Pastor: A Practical Guide to the Ministry. Chicago: Moody, 1985, 5). The [...]
