Have you noticed how many people struggle with back problems? Bulging disks, muscle strain, and arthritis plague and threaten to debilitate. While multitudes flock to chiropractic care or physical therapy, this physical malady can be eclipsed by a sometimes subtle but arguably more serious back problem in the Christian school. Spineless mediocrity, antagonism, negativity, selfishness, and transience are issues of consequence. The descriptor, spineless, is intentional.
Over the past several days, in social media streams there has been promotion of a group, “Evangelicals for Harris
When God guides a visitor to your church, He is entrusting you with a precious gift. It becomes your responsibility to follow up and nurture this person’s interest in growth. Making follow-up visits is key to encouraging that growth!
While there are many ways to structure a great plan for assimilation, here is a time-tested follow-up schedule that will help you engage and connect with your visitors!
Step 1: Review the Connection Card
Music is one of the most potent elements at work in the world. Its potential is manifested in man’s soul, culture’s movements, and a nation’s destiny. It was the eighteenth-century politician, Andrew Fletcher, who wrote, “I knew a very wise man that believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.”
Nothing meaningful in a woman’s life or ministry happens without courage. Yet, as Christian women, so often we go through the routines of the expectations placed upon us with a sense of mere duty or even drudgery. Sometimes we become fearful of the pressures and demands of life.
God, however, desires that we embrace the responsibilities He has placed in our lives and the opportunities He has placed before us with a sense of Spirit-filled confidence and godly courage.
As you look back over history, the people whom God has used to change the world have been men and women of great courage. Reading biographies of their lives or their own writings can inspire our courage and ignite our faith to accomplish great things for God.
The three men highlighted in this article exhibited unusual courage. May their courage challenge us to fulfill God’s calling on our lives, even when it is difficult and requires courage.
Every relationship is formed and perpetuated by an invisible link called trust. That binding link is forged through loving communication, meticulous integrity, and honest transparent motives.
Nothing compares to the privilege of serving in the house of the Lord! My heart echoes David’s: “For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness” (Psalm 84:10).
One of the great joys of the Christian life is helping to nurture the faith of young Christians. There’s just nothing like leading someone to Christ and then encouraging them as they take steps of faith and grow in the Lord.
In its pure definition, New Testament discipleship means to be a fully-committed follower of Christ. This commitment should be the very DNA of our Christian walk.
