The Treachery of Religion
The greatest threat to the gospel doesn’t usually come from the outsiders but from the insiders. Religion can be treacherous.
The greatest threat to the gospel doesn’t usually come from the outsiders but from the insiders. Religion can be treacherous.
Whenever the inappropriate fear of people eclipses the appropriate fear of God, it’s a short step to image management and control tactics.
Our meetings ought to look more like, “Reporting in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through this ministry.”
Know the destination. Don’t sweat the details. I think it’s how the will of God works more often than not.
We must learn to simply, meaningfully, and regularly send one another out into the mission of the gospel.
What’s so amazing about Paul is he left churches he had planted all the time yet he never protected himself from the pain that comes from saying goodbye to deep friendships.
For Paul, sound doctrine and teaching were not mere matters of right and wrong but of life and death.
Listen Now! October 9, 2019 Acts 20:17-24 (NIV) From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church. When they arrived, he said to them: “You know how I lived the whole time
Blessed are those who order their lives around this calendar first and let all the myriad of other calendars and dates and seasons find their ordering and priority accordingly.
Youth Ministry filled with endless talking just won’t get it done with teenagers—not in the Bible’s time, and not now.