Does the formality of church membership work against authentic fellowship? It turns out formal commitment is the best route to authentic fellowship. We tend to think relationships lead to commitment, but it’s the other way around. Just like cohabiting before marriage leads to higher divorce rates, noncommittal church attendance leads to weak fellowship. The early […]
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The Gospel Project Sunday school lesson for June 16 comes from 1 Samuel and the anointing of Saul as the first king of Israel. Up until this time the nation had been a theocracy—with God alone as their head, and the prophets, priests, and judges serving as God’s messengers to the people. But the people
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Why is church membership important? One reason is that it helps us do what Jesus has commanded us to do. Jesus is Lord, which means that we need to obey His 1,000+ commands in the New Testament. Of course, we cannot obey our way into heaven, but “this is the love of God, that we
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Our church is talking about evangelism on Sunday evenings this summer, and I thought this might be helpful for others. One of the evangelism tools I learned about in college is the gospel beads bracelet. (I used this once on a mission trip in Austria.) There are five beads that represent the basics of the
Why is church membership important? What’s so important about Christians formally joining a church? The short answer is: If you are a Christian, you are designed for a committed relationship with a church family. When you join a church, it helps you obey Jesus’s commands by enabling you to build deep relationships with other Christians.
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William Shakespeare wrote in Sonnet 116, “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” He wasn’t writing about God’s love, yet those words are more true of God than they are of any human love. David wrote, “For Your steadfast love is great to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds” (Psalm 57:10