Abusive churches do exist. There are people who have been hurt by poor churches. Nonetheless, the Bible calls believers into churches. So how do we
belonging
3 baptisms creating 3 members; 2 members welcomed without a baptism. What was going on?
Yesterday, we baptised and welcomed into membership 3 Iranian people: Hannah, Mohammad and Ahmad. We also welcomed into membership two British people: Rachel and Natalie.
Can we say somebody does or doesn’t belong to Christ?
My friend Dave Williams has added some thoughts to my article concerning judgmentalism that I put out yesterday. You can read my original post here.
Our community will compel people to consider Christ – that’s often the problem
Yesterday, I uploaded a clip from our latest sermon in Acts 2. Here is another clip from that same sermon. We considered the compelling apologetic
How can I know I belong to God?
This snippet of audio has been taken from our latest sermon in the book of Numbers. You can listen back to the whole sermon here.
What is church membership?
We have been thinking about membership a lot as elders of our church. I have previously posted our thoughts on what we expect of church