How to Recognize and Evaluate Good Preaching
If preaching is central to the ministry of the church, how do you evaluate someone’s ability to preach when you can’t even agree on what good preaching means?
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If preaching is central to the ministry of the church, how do you evaluate someone’s ability to preach when you can’t even agree on what good preaching means?
The ordinary practices of gathered worship may seem unimpressive to the world: preaching, prayer, singing, water, bread, and wine. Yet these are the very means God has ordained to strengthen faith, nourish his people, and display his glory.
What works for two weeks isn’t realistic long-term.
A church can be completely orthodox in its doctrine and still be missing something essential.
Baptist denominations in North America appear to be navigating through some very choppy waters at the moment. Some of the concerns have to do with doctrine, others have to do with practice, but all of them are complicated by polity. One of the challenges with Baptist denominational polity is that the people on the governing boards and committees are often chosen on the basis of representative criteria, which means they tend to represent the problems and divisions plaguing the fellowship in roughly the same proportion as the general constituency. This leaves the leadership group doubly disinclined to pursue reform. A: Because...
