A business perspective on Church as a business Terry Conley is Executive Vice President of Primrose Schools Franchising Company in Atlanta and has 30 years of experience in corporate real estate and strategic development. He is a member of Shiloh Hills Baptist Church in Kennesaw, GA. Everyone wants to be the industry leader, but […]
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Who Hath Despised the Day of Small Thing...
I have been defending the small church. I have not said that a church must be small to be spiritual or that largeness is an evil in itself. But I have said that the small church is the normal church; the one seen most often in the New Testament and throughout church history. I have […]
Who Hath Despised the Day of Small Thing...
When Zechariah was asked that question by the interpreting angel in the fourth chapter of his prophecy (Zech 4:10), the present temple project looked dreadfully small compared to the glory of the former temple. But the prophet as well as the people who worked on the walls were reminded that God’s work is Not by […]
A Minister’s Evaluation
With a little time to reflect on my pastoral ministry of eighteen years, I find myself doing constant self-evaluation. I think I am pretty hard on myself, though I cannot accept the common evaluations of many pundits. Theirs seems to be a typical crying of “so many are struggling emotionally in the ministry. . . […]
Why Did I Write It?
In January and February I wrote a two-part article titled, “Generic Church: The New Formalism.” In it I listed a number of reasons why I am not an advocate of the “contemporary” or “progressive” church movement. I received as many positive responses to that article as I have ever received for an article. I am […]
Generic Church: The New Formalism (part ...
Note: The first half of this article is in the January 2003 issue of Aletheia. Although I give space to expand the introduction, the main points are a continuation of the first three points which appear in the first issue. I have proposed that the description “contemporary church” in the sense of “new,” “fresh” or […]
Generic Church: The New Formalism (part...
Note: I have been intending to write the following article for a few months. It will probably take two issues to finish. It describes my disagreement with the contemporary church movement and what I believe to be unbiblical trends among our conservative churches. I have no antipathy toward individual people or churches. I do have […]
Compromise Is Always A Synthesis
R.C. Sproul wrote concerning the modern evangelical penchant to build bridges with defective theologies that, “The mythical element is the naïve assumption that one can build bridges that move in one direction only.”1 Meaning, that such bridges will bring the error closer to truth but not the truth closer to error. But it is the […]
Our Wonderful Counselor
Jesus would have been a failure at counseling had He lived in our time. Today we do not just want someone to counsel us who knows and feels our infirmities, we want someone who has experienced our failures; someone who has fallen into the same problem we are in and who will not judge us […]
A Case For The Traditional Church
A student was once asked whether ignorance or apathy was worse, to which he answered, “I don’t know and I don’t care.” Within the last few months I have visited a “non-traditional” church, watched a promotional video from another “non-traditional” church, and read web sites from other “non-traditional” churches (not to mention various articles, books, […]