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What to Do When Your Building Is Full
When you start to have more attendees than seats, you have other options than adding another service.
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Why a Church Constitution Is More Than a Necessary Evil
Once you’re in a leadership position, it becomes clear pretty fast that solid rules aren’t a necessary evil at all; they’re an indispensable weapon for safeguarding the unity of the church.
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How to Hold Your Tongue About Politics And Thereby Not Split Your Church Over Things the Bible Doesn’t Talk About
Greg Gilbert offers wisdom on how to hold your tongue about politics.
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How to Hold Your Tongue About Politics and Thereby Not Split Your Church over Things the Bible Doesn’t Talk About: AN ADDENDUM
What are some guardrails that can help a pastor navigate political issues, especially in a year like 2020?
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A Final Reply to Scot McKnight and Matthew Bates
This conversation is not new. It’s been going on for years, even decades.
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What Advice Would You Give Churches Livestreaming Their Services?
If your church has decided to make the decision to livestream, here are some pieces of advice you may find helpful.
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A Response to Scot McKnight and Matthew Bates
“King Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” Now that’s good news. So why on earth would anyone want to reply to that, “Eh, half of it is, anyway”?
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A T4G 2020 Sermon: What Is and Isn’t the Gospel
The cross and the kingdom are theologically inseparable because the only way into the kingdom is through the cross.
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Four Reasons You Should Preach Through Zechariah
Zechariah is the longest of the twelve Minor Prophets, and in my opinion it’s also the richest, most elegant, and most Christological, too.
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Is There Such a Thing as Church Authority?
Here are seven points regarding the keys of the kingdom, and how local churches exercise authority through their use.
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Your Constitution Is a Theological Document
A constitution is not just a technocratic document demanded by your state’s tax office, nor a necessary evil for avoiding conflict in a church. It’s a deeply theological and even spiritual document.
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Who Is Jesus?
A famed historian once noted that, regardless of what you think of him personally, Jesus Christ stands as the central figure in the history of Western civilization. A man violently rejected by some and passionately worshipped by others, Jesus remains as polarizing as ever. But most people still know very little about who he really […]