Scripture: Revelation 7:9–10 Devotion It’s easy to limit our view of faith and church to what’s familiar and right in front of us. Thankfully, Scripture gives us a higher and wider view of the church, one that extends far beyond our congregation or nation. In Matthew 28, Jesus sends His
The Silent Shift: Why Your Core Members Are Attending Less (and Telling You Nothing) If you only measure loss by membership rolls, you’ll miss what’s happening in real time. People are LYING About Church Attendance For years, surveys have said 22% of Americans attend church every week. New research from
The chapter on the people of God begins: “At all times and in every race God has given welcome to whosoever fears him and does what is right. God, however, does not make men holy and save them merely as individuals, without bond or link between one another. Rather has
A dreadful confusion of forms has emerged. These forms no longer have roots in life and its essential content. We build theaters in the form of temples, banks in the form of cathedrals, apartment complexes in the form of palaces. Working days and Sundays merge into one another. —Guardini (1994),
Holiness: Becoming Fully Human By Josh Duckworth The young denomination to which I belong has, from its inception, placed a major focus on “holiness.” The Global Methodist Church even revised its mission statement at its first General Conference to read: “make disciples of Jesus Christ and spread scriptural holiness across
Scripture: Matthew 9:35–38 Devotion “When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.” – Hudson Taylor Do you ever feel overwhelmed by all the sickness and hurt in the world? Human trafficking, starvation, spiritual depravity, broken relationships, financial hardships… Do you ever just wish you could fix it? Matthew
Overlooking the High Street, Oxford’s University Church of St Mary the Virgin boasts a porch which, for centuries, has welcomed worshipers through its doors. Completed in 1637, this Baroque South Porch symbolically extended the contact between Oxford’s ancient university Church with the city itself, further linking town and gown, the
My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow. As Passiontide kicks in and we look to Holy Week, in yet another time of war, I have been thinking how our culture tells stories about despair. The horror-fantasy TV show Stranger Things, which drew to a close recently after a decade-long stretch of