Posts tagged ministry

The handwriting was already on the wall before the pandemic killed it. Attendance at the evening service of a typical Bible-preaching church in America has …

Sweet 16 Sixteen years ago, on a brisk October day, Debbie and I left the comforts of family, friends, and country to begin missionary life …

A major emphasis in 1 Corinthian 9 is to exhort God’s people to be willing to give up their rights for the sake of the Gospel. What does this mean for me?

Self-control, motivated by love for Christ and love for others, is an absolute necessity if we are going to make hard life decisions about advancing the Gospel. Indispensable to this self-control is grace from God to enable us to obtain and maintain it.

Defining a Philosophy of Ministry Every church, whether or not they understand or articulate it clearly, has a philosophy of ministry. A philosophy of ministry …

We know how Paul applied “being all things to all men” and “laying aside our rights” for the sake of the Gospel. We now need to consider ways that we as cross-cultural missionaries might apply these principles to our lives today.

In I Timothy 4:16, Paul urged Timothy to “keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching [doctrine]. Persist in this, for by so …

The Ideal What kind of men and women does the Lord use mightily in ministry? In answer to this question, we tend to think of …

Introduction: A Different Kind of Post I’ll warn you up front: this post is not a typical Rooted Thinking article. Actually, it’s not really a …

1 Corinthians 8 showed us that love for Christ and His people determines how we use our “rights.” As applied to eating food offered to …