Tag: Ecclesiology

  • Lent: Observe or Ignore?

    I had a good question come through on my Facebook wall today, which was also the subject of Mac’s World Live yesterday. Lent? To celebrate or not to celebrate? I’ve been wondering what the theological basis for celebrating lent would be. It is not widely advertised in our churches. Any thoughts? There is freedom here.…

  • Is “Ministry” Killing Your Church?

    Charles Specht asks a hard question: have you given any thought to why your men’s ministry, women’s ministry, children’s ministry, music ministry (ouch! hands off!), conferences, classes, and various meetings exist within your church lately? Are the “ministries” in your church killing your actual effectiveness in The Great Commission that Jesus gave us: to go…