And we never saw them again. I was humbled, weak, and desperate for
someone to help me get the church off the ground. Our core-team was
working tirelessly and faithfully. I was looking for some way, any way,
for the church-plant to get traction. And that was precisely the
problem. I was looking for a way; I was on my own little hunt through the labyrinth of church-plant methods to just get the thing growing.
No, a desire for growth in one’s church-plant is not wrong. But when
the goal becomes to get something going, above ordinary faithfulness to
be a good servant of Christ Jesus (1 Tim 4:6), we’re off the mark. Keep Reading...
Scriptures teach consistently that faith comes through the proclamation of the gospel, not through good works. Christ himself was not arrested and arraigned because he was trying to restore family values or feed the poor...The mounting ire of the religious leaders toward Jesus coalesced around him making himself equal with God and forgiving sins in his own person, directly, over against the temple and its sacrificial system. Michael Horton
The purpose of this Blog is to introduce men and women all over the World to the Doctrines of Grace; the 5 Solas; Reformation Theology and the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Church-Planting and Pragmatism
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