Preaching
Charismatic speaking gathers great crowds. Expositional preaching raises the dead and builds up churches.
Sometimes your counsel will be the difference between a wise option and a suboptimal, borderline foolish option.
When a church’s trellis is broken, its ministry vine can’t grow. This is why church operations—the daily management of people, finances, and processes—is so necessary.
If we submit all our differences under the lordship of Christ, God’s Spirit will lead us either to full agreement or loving acceptance of one another.
Christians can give thanks for their country despite its faults, even as they give their highest allegiance to Christ and his kingdom.
Our lives are linked, not just by a subjective sense that we “feel connected,” but by the body and the blood of Jesus.
Plurality, when rightly exercised, curbs the innate tendencies to control, to make ministry about self, and to use the church instead of serving it.
Charismatic speaking gathers great crowds. Expositional preaching raises the dead and builds up churches.