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The supernatural fruit of the Spirit requires the work of God and his grace. He makes it possible. But we choose to allow it or not.
There is another story about a battle for American hymnody that has been on display since the Sing! Global conference was founded in 2017 by Keith and Kristyn Getty, a husband-and-wife hymn writing team. For more than a decade, American worship services have started to leave traditional hymns behind.
If religion is to ever again be a unifying, uplifting, democratizing or equalizing force in our society, the people who are not (yet) strivers or winners will need to feel welcome and believe there’s a compelling reason to participate. That seems to be where the church has failed.
To date, more than 5,550 of the United Methodist Church’s approximately 30,000 U.S. churches have disaffiliated from the country’s second-largest Protestant denomination since 2019.
“I believe in the sanctity of marriage, but I know sometimes in our churches people wind up in biblical divorce. But we don’t throw divorce parties at our church, OK? And whatever these results are, I’m asking you: Behave like Christians, OK?”
The power of the Christian gospel is not made manifest through celebrity sightings in the pews or auditoriums flooded with hipsters. The power of the gospel is made manifest when broken people gather together in ordinary spaces to participate in God’s ongoing, extraordinary work of love in this world.
“This proposal values life, both the life of the person in distress and anyone who may become a target in their anguish. Removing their ability to inflict harm on themselves or others is in line with our state’s strong commitment to protecting the sanctity of life.”
“If we cannot agree on who a pastor can be, when Scripture clearly speaks to the matter, we cannot cooperate in planting churches.”
The supernatural fruit of the Spirit requires the work of God and his grace. He makes it possible. But we choose to allow it or not.
There is another story about a battle for American hymnody that has been on display since the Sing! Global conference was founded in 2017 by Keith and Kristyn Getty, a husband-and-wife hymn writing team. For more than a decade, American worship services have started to leave traditional hymns behind.
If religion is to ever again be a unifying, uplifting, democratizing or equalizing force in our society, the people who are not (yet) strivers or winners will need to feel welcome and believe there’s a compelling reason to participate. That seems to be where the church has failed.
To date, more than 5,550 of the United Methodist Church’s approximately 30,000 U.S. churches have disaffiliated from the country’s second-largest Protestant denomination since 2019.
“I believe in the sanctity of marriage, but I know sometimes in our churches people wind up in biblical divorce. But we don’t throw divorce parties at our church, OK? And whatever these results are, I’m asking you: Behave like Christians, OK?”
The power of the Christian gospel is not made manifest through celebrity sightings in the pews or auditoriums flooded with hipsters. The power of the gospel is made manifest when broken people gather together in ordinary spaces to participate in God’s ongoing, extraordinary work of love in this world.
“This proposal values life, both the life of the person in distress and anyone who may become a target in their anguish. Removing their ability to inflict harm on themselves or others is in line with our state’s strong commitment to protecting the sanctity of life.”
“If we cannot agree on who a pastor can be, when Scripture clearly speaks to the matter, we cannot cooperate in planting churches.”
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