Committing for Real
Mark Dever challenges the notion that we can love “the universal church” without committing to an actual church:
Please do not be deceived by a vague conception of the universal church to which
Church
Small, Flawed, Messy – and Holy
Churches have seldom looked like much. The churches we read about in the New Testament were small. When Paul wrote the book of Romans, he wrote to a church at the center of
One Thing Missing
Yesterday’s post on the church brings up a good question: how do we critique the church? It certainly needs correction at times.
This is made even harder because many of us have
Challenging Low Views of Church
I often talk to people who have low views of the church. Some of the most common:
* the consumer view – the church just isn’t meeting my needs
* the voluntary association view – I’
The Church is a Band of Natural Enemies
We’re constantly tempted to hang out with people just like us, who like the same things and who don’t really push us out of our comfort zone. This is true even