The Case For Insider-Focused Church Services
Today let’s talk about the case for church services designed for church members; we’ll look at the other side tomorrow. In the Old Testament, worship was very much insider focused. Outsiders could...
View ArticleThe Case For Outsider-Focused Church Services
Here’s the counter-argument to yesterday’s post. When arguing for an insider focus to our church assemblies, I referred to 1 Corinthians 14. Yet in that passage, Paul also makes a point about...
View ArticleGod-Focused Church Services?
I got a couple of responses to this weeks’ post that reflected the same idea: worship should be neither member-focused nor seeker-focused; worship should be God focused. In a sense, I agree. All of...
View ArticleChurch assemblies should be about us
Doesn’t it sound strange to say that we should be focused on people when we come together? That’s not the way most of us learned Christianity. Why did we put on our Sunday best? To present ourselves...
View ArticleAssemblies that build us up, please God, and attract outsiders
I’ve been proposing several things about our church assemblies: The main focus of our assemblies shouldn’t be worship. In the same way, God shouldn’t be the exclusive focus of our worship assembly. If...
View ArticleTalking about body life in Church Inside Out
Church body life is a main focus of my new book, Church Inside Out. To give you a flavor, here are a few quotes on the topic When Christians stay cooped up inside a church building, they grow...
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