Tag: church
If You Love Jesus, Join a Church
For years I’ve been captivated by the beautiful simplicity of Acts 2:41–47. When I left my first church, which I pastored for eight years,...
Church Growth: Numbers and Maturity
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In this episode of the Holy Joys Podcast, Johnathan Arnold and David Fry discuss David's recent article, "What Does Healthy Church Growth Look Like?"
“Feed My Sheep”: Theology and the Church
Theology in the church, for the church, from the church.
The Church: A Central Doctrine
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Johnathan Arnold and David Fry discuss why ecclesiology (the study of the church) should be of central importance to every Christian, especially pastors, and...
A Six-Week Class on the Church and Sacraments
Download PDF: Church and Sacraments: Overview of a Six-Week Class.
Instead of weekly Sunday school, our church has begun offering classes in the Spring and...
Catechism, Chapter 5: The Church & Sacraments
The Church is the primary work of the Holy Trinity, the family and flock of the Father, the bride and body of Christ, and...
The Bible is the Church’s Book
Because the Bible is God’s word, the church must submit to the Bible as to God himself. The church does not stand over Scripture;...
A Protestant View of the Church and Tradition in the Augsburg...
The Reformers were not trying to get back to Scripture instead of Tradition; they were trying to recover the true Tradition: the Church’s consensus of faith and practice, from which Roman Catholicism had departed.
Scripture in the Methodist Tradition, Part 2: The Forgotten Articles
In the previous article of this series on Scripture in the Methodist Tradition, I gave four principles from Article VI of the 39 Articles...
What is the Church’s Role in Our Salvation?
For a podcast discussion of this article and related themes, see "The Church, Salvation, and Assurance."
Why Does the Church Matter?
In our modern smorgasbord of...