Should Every Believer Pursue Theology Formally?

You know, God has made Christians in all shapes and sizes and flavors, and there are some Christians, not a lot, but there are some Christians with such an incredibly high level of intelligence that you just, you feel kind of dumb just being around them. And then there's the rest of us. We're just p...

Oct 13, 2025

How Do I Find a Spiritual Mentor?

In our church, in an organized fashion, and also organically, and in your church perhaps in an organized fashion, or also organically, we have a word that we all love, and that is discipleship. Discipleship at its core is really one believer pouring into the life of a less mature believer and showin...

Oct 8, 2025

What's the Role of the Church in My Community?

The Church of Jesus Christ does, by necessity and really by mandate, interact with our own communities. After all, the Great Commission is for us to go into the world and to share the good news of Jesus Christ and the gospel and to baptize people in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Sp...

Oct 6, 2025

Why Does Church Discipline Matter?

I got an email once from a pastor who received some members that we had disciplined out of our church after many months of trying to work with them. And the pastor told me that we're legalistic because we practice church discipline. That made me kind of scratch my head because church discipline is c...