Church

What can we give to people?

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” Brad Hightower asks if we're offering people the church or the kingdom: What the church offers is programs and teaching. In other

I’d never

I just want you to know that I would never do this. Even I have my standards. The FoxFaith website says: “We understand that as a pastor, there are movies out there that

When the church trades its language

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” odyssey: When the Church trades its language: In her book Teaching That Transforms, Debra Dean Murphy quotes Adam Nicholson, saying: 'Language which is

King Jr. on the Church

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” From the Letter from Birmingham Jail: In deep disappointment I have wept over the laxity of the church. But be assured that my tears

No other purpose

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” It is so easy to think that the Church has a lot of different objects – education, building, missions, holding services…The Church exists for