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Faith Lessons by Ray Vander Laan: Seminar at the North Shelby Baptist Church
I’ve just gotten back from a seminar taught by Ray Vander Laan in south Birmingham, Alabama, at the North Shelby Baptist Church. The seminar began at 6:00 on Friday night and ended about 5:00 today — and it was fabulous! … Continue reading
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Church Plants and Missions: Putting a Congregational Vision Together, Part 2
5. Have the entire congregation support the missionary. * Make sure his newsletter goes to everyone (electronically, of course). * Be sure the entire church gets to spend time with him before he’s sent and each time he visits. * … Continue reading
Posted in Church Plants and Foreign Missions, Uncategorized
Tagged All, Church of Christ Links, church planting
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Church Plants and Missions: Putting a Congregational Vision Together, Part 1
We in the Churches of Christ aren’t very good at missions — foreign or domestic. The biggest problem isn’t in the mission field, though. It’s in our churches. We just don’t know what we’re doing. I don’t pretend to have … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Church of Christ Links, church planting
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Church Plants and Missions: Failing Missions, Better Approaches, Part 2
5. Be honest and forthright. Tell him exactly what you are concerned about, ask for his views, and discuss the problems man to man. Most churches are so afraid to hurt someone’s feelings and to engage in a hard conversation … Continue reading
Church Plants and Missions: Failing Missions, Better Approaches, Part 1
I’m talking about — except I do know something about having employees. I have a few dozen. And there are certain principles that govern how you treat people who count on you for their living. You may well have to … Continue reading
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Church Plants and Missions: What Works
The Churches of Christ split 100 years ago over missionary societies. As a result, we’ve found ourselves with each congregation acting as its own missionary society. A deacon gets handed the task of overseeing a missionary or two with no … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Church of Christ Links, church planting
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Church Plants and Missions: What Doesn’t Work
Seems obvious, doesn’t it? Why would we invest lives, energy, and money in church plant efforts that don’t have at least some of the characteristics described in the previous post? But that’s what Churches of Christ are doing all over … Continue reading
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Church Plants and Missions: Factors that Affect Success
We need to talk some about church plants. You see, the denominations that are growing the fastest are the denominations planting churches. In fact, back when the Churches of Christ were growing rapidly, we were planting churches (sometimes on purpose; … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Church of Christ Links, church planting, evangelism
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Pacifism: How I’ve Got It Figured
I don’t think I’m through with the pacifism posts, but I’m sure I’m through for now. I have some other things that are itching to get out of my fingers and onto the electronic page — and we’ve pretty much … Continue reading
Pacifism: A Hypothesis and a Question
I’ve been pondering the martyrdom side of the pacifism question. Many of us have been assuming that Christians are called only to non-violent resistance when confronted with possible martyrdom. Some would argue that a Christian may use necessary force for … Continue reading
