Membership
If the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” how much more can it not say that to a whole local body?
Scripture teaches us how to use our time together—how to “do church”—and each element of our services is designed by God to disciple you and to give you opportunities to disciple others in your church family.
Our children should hear us recounting God’s incredible work among his people far more frequently than bemoaning their faults.
Gathering with God’s people provides a rest that physical inactivity cannot provide. It’s a rest that reinvigorates your soul, not just your body.
Throughout these essays on digital media, three predicaments show up repeatedly: false digital discipleship, disembodied community, and the decay of contemplation.
If not for the Lord being on your side, you’d be completely without hope. And yet, the Lord is on your side. For whatever he brings against you, more still does he give to your defense.
The ultimate basis of your hope of making it to the end secure in Christ is not your own resolve, seriousness, or moral character but the finished work of Christ and all of God’s promises in him.
If the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” how much more can it not say that to a whole local body?