The Corporate Church
The Corporate Church traces God’s relationship with Israel and how it shapes His relationship with the Church. The implications will change the way you think about and do church.
The Corporate Church traces God’s relationship with Israel and how it shapes His relationship with the Church. The implications will change the way you think about and do church.
If you have been in church leadership for more than ten minutes, you have experienced church drama. It can start by simply repositioning the flags or flowers on the platform.
Human initiative and “business experience” dressed up as Divine guidance has waylaid many a church. It is a danger every ministry faces.
“For the overseer must be above reproach as God’s steward, not self-willed . . .” (Titus 1:7).
In our ministry’s work to heal churches in pain, we often enter congregations that have suffered from a lack of church discipline. I want to explore one of the reasons: an overdeveloped sense of empathy.
We are bombarded daily by what I call “The Ten Commandments of Culture.” What are these dogmas and how might they influence your ministry?
Maybe you are a pastor, and you are weeping (or have wept) over your current situation. If so, you grieve in good company:
Sin disrupts and destroys whatever it touches. However, there are some sins which cause God’s blessing on a ministry to get disconnected.
The cycle of national pain has escalated since Columbine. How do we make sense of such shattering and fracturing events?
The Church is like a bride that has lost her beauty. She still has a certain attractiveness though, like a girl who has suffered bells-palsy but whose beauty still shines through her eyes.
We should not think that repentance alone will always quell ingrained sin patterns, especially when they are deeply rooted and a part of a church’s “culture.”
Don’t let worms spoil your ministry. By keeping your church worm-free, you will become better fishers of men!
Assess your ministry context to see if any of these four causes of ministry pain are impacting your spiritual work and worship.
Someone with the gift of discernment inserts an element of “doubt” about how things appear on the surface.
Commonly mistaken for coincidence or chance, we don’t always recognize the Divine significance behind so-called “coincidences” in church life.
Hypocrisy, plainly stated, is activity geared to look better than we are and to hide reality where we fall short.
The hidden fractures in many churches have become visible fissures. Can churches regain their stability in such an unstable situation?
A divisive doctrinal controversy gained a foothold in a previously placid congregation. Sides were chosen. The bulk of the church divided. Confusion hung in the air.
Like Eutychus falling out the window while Paul preached, church falls can leave a ministry flat on its back, the Spirit completely quenched, unless Jesus does a miracle of healing.
As damaging as all the ministry schisms are in modern day churches, they do not compare to the potential damage done on the early Church by the dissension between Paul and Barnabas over John Mark