Tag: church
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Your church is not a restaurant: the customer service mentality and its danger to the American church
In America, where we have so many options with everything, every business with which we interact lives and dies on our satisfaction. And we often treat churches in much the same way. Like it’s just another business that we’re patronizing. Where if you’re not happy with a church, if you decide you don’t like something…
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Methodist district to support international churches, despite moral disagreement
I’ve been highly critical of the United Methodist Church. Earlier this year, the international denomination voted to maintain traditional marriage (the position that this denomination has always held). But my criticism comes for American Methodist churches who have sought to undermine and oppose what their own denomination voted on.
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What’s the greatest danger to the American church?
There are 300,000 churches in America. There are many wonderful churches that boldly proclaim the gospel and faithfully teach the Bible every week. There is no perfect church in the world, because every church is full of members who are imperfect people. I think that the biggest issue the American church faces today is related…
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Rival gang members baptized together
Gateway Church, a popular megachurch in Texas launched a new campus in a maximum security prison earlier this year. Last week, five inmates in solitary confinement were baptized. Part of what makes the story noteworthy is that the men come from rival gangs. Many articles have discussed the risk to their own lives that these…
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What D-Day can teach us about faithful service
What do baseball hall of famer Yogi Berra, legendary actor Henry Fonda, “Catcher in the Rye” author J.D. Salinger, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guiness), and Scottie from the original Star Trek (James Doohan) have in common? All were part of the Normandy invasion. 75 years ago tomorrow, Allied forces invaded Normandy, France which had been occupied…
Josh Benner 