I felt called to pastoral and preaching ministry within my first few months as a Christian. I remember being asked to share my testimony at a youth service and being very excited. I already had a lot of experience as a public speaker, so it seemed like a simple request to serve.
I soon learned that the sacred content communicated within the preaching mantle made this completely different to any previous experience I had with public speaking. It also revealed to me that I had a passion and giftedness for this work, because this content immediately mattered more than almost any other ministry I was doing.
However, I was serving within a complementarian church at the time, so I quickly…
As many of us are aware of, on June 14th of this year, a motion was passed by a 2/3 vote to include in Article III of its constitution a sixth criteria that distinctly defines a church’s cooperation with the…
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As many of us are aware of, on June 14th of this year, a motion was passed by a 2/3 vote to include in Article III of its constitution a sixth criteria that distinctly defines a church’s cooperation with the…
“Elvis has left the building.”
I have heard this phrase my entire life and no one really explained to me that it was to announce to concert attendees that Elvis had literally left the venue, so go home. Concertgoers had…
