Category: Denominations

  • January 11, 2017
    THE BODY OF CHRIST IS HURTING I will speak specifically of presbyteries, but what I say can be applied to…

  • June 8, 2016
    HAVING THE CONVERSATION If all the churches in the presbytery had a healthy relationship with their clergy and each congregation…

  • February 19, 2016
    One Future for Denominations In reading Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat I was struck with its implications for denominationalism.…

  • September 2, 2015
    The Biggest Lie If you were to suggest the biggest lie that churches tell, what would it be?Knowing what Jesus…

  • April 22, 2015
    Naming your Demons Rollo May, in his book Love and Will analyzed the word demon and its relationship to daimon…

  • April 10, 2015
    THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING Since WW II, many denominations have tried to become organizationally efficient in the exercise…

  • March 27, 2015
    IMPERFECT GRACE   How does a PRESBYTERY relate the faith to their relationship with the congregations in the presbytery? If…

  • March 20, 2015
    READING CHURCH IN SCRIPTURE   In a previous post on March 13, I explored the idea of reading the church…

  • March 13, 2015
    OUR WITNESS We seem to experience continual examples of church fights, splits, and splintering of the Body of Christ in…

  • March 6, 2015
    God’s Disestablishment in Presbyteries   A little historical research will reveal that much of the structure of our present church…