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Category Archives: The Church

Oct202020Oct 18 2020

E-111 Same Lake, Different Boat: Coming Alongside People Touched by Disability with Steph Hubach

by Cami Summers, in category Community, Discipleship, Leadership, Ministry, Mission, Motherhood, Parenting, Podcast, Relationships, The Church, The Gospel
Same Lake, Different Boat: Coming Alongside People Touched by Disability with Steph Hubach Have you ever longed to come alongside a family who is being shaped by disability but you just were not sure how to take steps toward meaningful engagement with them? Join Stephanie Hubach and Karen Hodge as they discuss how to think… Read More
May212020May 8 2020

Three Ways to Love Other Churches

by Christina Fox, in category The Church

Several times each year, our church has its Sunday evening worship service with other area churches. Before the service, we greet old friends in the parking lot and squeeze together in the quickly-filling sanctuary. Meeting in a place that a recent study called “the most post-Christian city in America” our combined assembly is not particularly large, but it is always immensely encouraging.

Week-by-week, vastly outnumbered by our avowedly-secular neighbors, our individual churches can sometimes seem like minor oddities. But, every few months, for two hours on a Sunday evening, these scattered congregations gather. We sing together, pray together, confess our faith together, receive the Word together, and fellowship together. Together, we affirm that, though each local church may appear weak and solitary, we have never been—and will never be!—alone.

In the book of Acts, when Luke reports on the earliest spread of the gospel, he describes it as the growth of a single church: “So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied” (Acts 9:31). Congregations assembled for worship in various locations in Judea and Galilee and Samaria. They were unique groups of specific people under the care of particular elders. But, seen together through the lens of Christ’s great redeeming work, they were “the church.”

In our local congregations, we are not just a few or a few hundred; we are part of something much, much bigger. We are part of the church…

May192020May 18 2020

E: 103 A Place to Belong: Learning to Love the Local Church with Megan Hill

by Cami Summers, in category Community, Discipleship, Faith, Podcast, The Church
A Place to Belong: Learning to Love the Local Church with Megan Hill Do you believe that "we" is better than just "me"? Megan Hill reminds us that God's Church is His gift to us to conform us more into the image of His dear Son, Jesus Christ. This episode explores ecclesiology, or what it… Read More

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