Monday, April 4, 2022

The Church Has Two Missions: Narrow and Broad

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What is the mission of the church? Answering that requires defining what we mean by the “church.” Theologians make distinctions between the ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

How Church Discipline Aims at Heaven

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This is a helpful article on church discipline from 9Marks . . .  The church of Jesus Christ lives in the overlap of the old age and the new...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Four Lessons on Bad Ecclesiology from the Rise and Fall of Mars Hill

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 I am not blogging on this site as much anymore, posting more on our church's Facebook page. I do and will continue to post articles are...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

How to Survive the First 5 Years of Church Planting

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From TGC  . . .  Five years ago today, Cross Community Church was born. Almost anyone who has been involved in church planting knows the sig...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Pastors Should Have Friends in Church. Do They?

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I was told by a leader at the seminary I went to during a chapel that pastors should not have friends in the church they pastor. It did not ...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

When Members Leave: How Pastors Can Guard Their Hearts

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Over the years I have experienced both pain and numbness to people leaving. Here is some helpful advice. After the presbytery of local pasto...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Driscoll, Schaeffer, and Packer on the Size of Your Church and the Idolatry of Your Heart

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Must read for every driven ministry leader from Justin Taylor at TGC. I have just finished The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill.  Well worth list...