Even worse, it’s scary how easily the veneer of godliness can be applied to this “other woman.” If a man is working long nights and weekends so he can spend time away from his family and with a female coworker, he would be (rightly) rebuked. But if he’s working long nights and weekends just because he derives from his career a peace and identity and thrill that home cannot match, what do we say then?
Just Give Me Jesus: A Closer Look at Christians Who Don’t Go to Church
So who are they? The “love Jesus, but not the church” crowd is mostly white (61%) and mostly female (63%), according to Barna. They are nearly as likely to identify as Republican (25%) as Democrat (30%).
Previous Pew Research Center studies found that Hispanic Christians attend church more regularly than their white counterparts, and black Protestants are retaining young churchgoers at higher rates than any other group.
Are Short-Term Mission Trips Valuable?
If a missions trip costs tens of thousands of dollars and involves minimal ministry impact, it’s really nothing more than a fun cross-cultural experience—which wouldn’t be enough to justify it. But many short-term missions trips are strategic and greatly help the national churches, missionaries, and indigenous people. They create “world Christians,” who come back changed and who will pray for and fund missions the rest of their lives, thereby spreading their world vision and serving on missions task forces in ways they never would have if they’d stayed home. Also, many long-term missionaries have started with short-term experiences that have helped prepare them and move their hearts toward missions.
When Questions Reflect Issues of the Heart: A New Evangelism for a New Day
In our research at the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism of unchurched people across the country, we have discovered that the biggest fear people have when they are considering visiting a church is the fear of being judged, and it is sometimes based off of negative past experiences. Resolving that broken trust often takes preeminence over finding rational solutions to intellectual questions.
Seven Common Mistakes Churches Make When They Have an Interim Pastor
- The church moves into a maintenance mode.
- The church allows the interim pastor to be a candidate for pastor.
- The process of finding a pastor becomes a “beauty contest.”
- The search process is handled poorly.
- The church leaves personnel problems for the next pastor to handle.
- The church fails to deal with sacred cows.
- The church fills key staff positions in the interim period.
The most arcane practice of English Bible translations is the use of “The Lord” for God’s name. It is a translation choice with zero scholarly merit, it confuses by creating artificial distance between the reader and the text, and is not defensible on any legitimate grounds. At best it is condescending, but more likely it is just simply superstitious.
In Defense of Second-Class Missionaries
I’m all about strategy in missions, and it’s important for churches to be careful in their vetting process of potential missionaries. But can we expand our idea of what strategy means? Missionaries, as an extension of the Church, must function as the Body of Christ. Could the Western Church function by only hiring evangelists? I realize that mission work can have different goals than churches back at home: Missionaries are working ourselves out of a job; they are doing everything they can to replace themselves with national believers. But to get there, they need the Body of Christ.
Why It Matters Whether Students Learn About World War I in American History or World History Class
And so, students are learning about World War I in two very different ways. In the more nationalistic U.S. history curriculum, the United States is the defender of global order and democracy. In the world history context, the United States is mentioned hardly at all, and impersonal global forces take center stage.
Israel reschedules election because it clashes with Britney Spears concert
Although the party didn’t mention Britney by name, a statement put out did say: ‘The election date was delayed by one day due to the fact that there is a major event at Yarkon Park on July 3, 2017.’
Why Delta Air Lines Paid Me $11,000 Not To Fly To Florida This Weekend
One gate agent confessed that there are people who take the art of bumping very seriously and make thousands upon thousands of dollars. And now, I understand it. I really do. I’m already starting to think about how I can get bumped off other flights. This could be a new career.
Why French Fries Are More of a “Superfood” Than Kale
According to the Harvard School of Public Health, studies conducted “generally don’t provide strong evidence that antioxidant supplements have a substantial impact on disease,” so there’s no reason to assume that eating tons of so-called “superfoods” would impart added benefits over a balanced diet. Moreover, the body doesn’t need mega doses of vitamins, and too much can actually be harmful. For example, consuming an average of 1.5 cups of cooked kale a day over a six-year timespan could result in chronic vitamin A toxicity, and that assumes no other dietary intake of the vitamin.
Clearly, someone could not subsist on the current conception of “superfoods,” so how “super” are they really? A truer superfood, one which provides almost everything the body needs, is the humble potato. Packed with starch, fiber, and protein, as well as a plethora of vitamins and minerals, it may be the most complete food on the planet. Cut one up and lightly fry the slices with a little canola oil and a pinch of salt, and you’ve got yourself a healthful feast!