Should we actually practice church discipline today? Is it unloving?Once an ordinary part of church life, churches gradually stopped practicing church discipline in the 20th century. But Jesus command
Who leads a church? Why is this important to God? God cares about his glory, and he means to display his glory through the church. For this very end, God has established elders and deacons, membe
God means to fulfill the Great Commission through local churches. How did the apostles and the churches of the New Testament obey the Great Commission? By gathering Christians together in churches. Th
Why did Jesus give the church a meal to eat together?The Lord's Supper isn't just something churches do together, it's something that binds us together, making many into one. This accessible work bibl
What's the big deal about baptism?Jesus commands his disciples to be baptized, and it’s a glorious picture of a person’s union with Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. Still, many Christians feel
Congregational authority is less about the meetings and more about the mission.Congregationalism has a bad rap for well-known reasons: inefficient meetings, upstart members, browbeaten ministers. But
