Christians who want to question the effectiveness of a church sometimes jokingly ask if a church disappeared from a community, would anyone notice. The answer in this case is no.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A church has vanished from the Russian village where it stood for almost 200 years, the local diocese said Tuesday.
The Church of Christ’s [...]
What could be gained by having smaller churches:
More intimate fellowship. Everyone instantly becomes more accessible because there are far less of you.
The giftings of each member would more readily find output. In a larger church, the math says there will be numerous people with the same or similar giftings but the opportunities for gift exercise [...]
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Charles Latham in his antifolk song My Perfect Church offers this bit of truth-in-jesting cynicism concerning spirituality:
I pray from my toilet seat, “Make my holy life complete”
My god hears me when I speak, can yours say the same? My god lets me have my way, I can pray for it not [...]
Being a member of a church–a local body of believers–implies that you are a part of the church, as a body part is part of a body. We call it a part because it’s attached in meaningful way to the larger unit, the body. So then are “members” of a church really members if they [...]
In reading A God Entranced Vision of All Things: The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards, I’ve come to a striking observation of the church that was true in 1846 and finds relevance today as well. The quote is by a gentleman with whom, before reading this book, I was unacquainted, J. H. Thornwell, “the great Southern [...]
