Archive for August, 2011
I want to follow on the recent series of wonderful posts about the role of children in organic church life by sharing a few practical tips to help children enjoy, contribute to, and behave properly in open church meetings. If you come to our meeting for the first time, you might think our group’s ~20 [...]
I’ll be doing a more extensive series on biblical leadership in the church soon, but at this point it is helpful to relate what the role of the elders and leaders are in the open meeting. There is nothing in the Scripture that suggests the elder is responsible for a weekly teaching or sermon. The [...]
It will likely surprise some people to learn that our church is composed of many types of church background and theology. There are people in our community from the following denominations: Baptist, Church of God, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Non-Denominational. People in our community could call themselves reformed, armenian, pentecostal, evangelical and a whole host of [...]