Posts with the category “the-church-defined”

Managing What Is Not YoursThere is a word that gets thrown around in church circles so often that it has nearly lost its weight. That word is stewardship. For many people, it conjures images of pledge...  Read More

Order, Authority, and the Beauty of Biblical GovernanceThere is something deeply human about resisting authority. We bristle at the idea of being told what to do, of submitting to a structure we did n...  Read More

There is a quiet crisis unfolding in the Western church. It does not announce itself with fanfare. It creeps in gradually, through small compromises, through biblical illiteracy, through a slow drift ...  Read More

There is a word that makes many Christians uncomfortable. It conjures images of priests in long robes, swinging censers of incense through cold stone corridors. It sounds ceremonial, distant, and life...  Read More

Rediscovering the Meaning Behind Baptism and CommunionThere is something quietly alarming about a generation of believers who have become strangers to their own inheritance. We have access to more Chr...  Read More

The Case for Multi-Generational DiscipleshipWhat if the decline of faith in the next generation is not a mystery to be solved but a warning to be heeded? Consider this: according to a 2019 Barna Group...  Read More