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Building a Culture of Evangelism Takes Time, So Be Patient and Get to Work
Programs come and go. A culture endures.
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What the Doctrine of Man Means for Your Accountability Group
The usefulness of accountability relationships depends on whether or not you allow the Bible’s instruction about people to inform how you think about such groups.
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Friendship: The Foundation of Paul’s Global Ministry
One of Paul’s most consistent values may surprise us: friendship.
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Never Underestimate the Value of Ordinary, Brief, Christian Conversations
We overlook the value of ordinary, brief, Christian conversations.
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How Formal Membership Makes the Church a Family
If you want the church to feel like a family, commit to formal church membership.
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Seven Well-Meaning Objections to Church Discipline—and How Pastors Ought to Respond to Them
Let's briefly consider some of the “good-faith” objections to discipline we’ve encountered and how we try to help church members understand the theological principles undergirding discipline.
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Practice Charity, Pursue Credibility: How to Respond to a Child’s Profession of Faith
In every case, a church ought to be careful, weeding through words to attempt to discern the motivation behind a profession of faith―in other words, its credibility.
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The Wide Chasm Between Biblical Principles and Biblical Ideals
Ministry is full of both principles and ideals. If we confuse the two, then we’ll either require something that God does not require for faithfulness, or we’ll disregard an aspect of faithfulness.
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Pastor, Defend Christian Liberty
We trivialize the doctrine of Christian liberty when we focus on freedom to while neglecting the beauties of freedom from.
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Congregationalism Doesn’t Stop at 8 p.m.
When you reduce congregationalism down to just members’ meetings, you deprive yourself of much of the blessing the Lord intends to grant his church through good polity.