What do you understand the local church to be? Is it a group of people who all think in unison with a set of beliefs to which each has subscribed? Or, is it a group of people who are worshiping God together even though they may not all agree to what that means? I recently read a post on Travis Flanagan’s website Help Me Believe titled “What Is the Local Church” in which he provided this definition of the local church.Archive for April, 2018
Church: A Band of Jesus Followers
Posted: April 28, 2018 in Christian Life, ChurchTags: Christ, Christianity, church, Jesus, Religion, spiritual
What do you understand the local church to be? Is it a group of people who all think in unison with a set of beliefs to which each has subscribed? Or, is it a group of people who are worshiping God together even though they may not all agree to what that means? I recently read a post on Travis Flanagan’s website Help Me Believe titled “What Is the Local Church” in which he provided this definition of the local church.A Holy Fist Pump
Posted: April 27, 2018 in Christian Life, Life's DesignTags: Christian Life, Faith, Jesus, Life, Prayer, Worship
I live a very safe life “in the shadow of God’s wings.” I gather with the rest of the brood regularly, yet wonder if God’s pleased with my worship. I conduct activity that keeps God alive in me—morning prayer, evening prayer—in between these weekly occasions of corporate prayer on Sundays, but then have to work hard to conjure up his presence when not consciously communing with him. Where did I leave him during those hours? I know I’m deep in the water of Christian faith, that I’ve walked with Jesus into those waters, over my head in them. I know what that’s supposed to mean and I try to make that meaning reality, yet knowing and being don’t always merge into one.
