Sublime

Church planting among the reached. You may also be funding church planting where Christians already live, perhaps in your own area.

the worship service. One asked what her clerical stole meant; another asked about the “children’s sermon”; and another asked if she and the congregation “believed in the Bible.” Giving each question dignity and import, she answered each person clearly and with splashes of humor. Moving toward conclusion, she explained that the congregation’s

Michael Kruger identifies a mindset he calls “the arrogance of the urban,” which privileges city ministry and can often lead to disdaining or caricaturing the suburbs and rural places.

Pastor Tim Keller

we can connect with, and in each one we can serve starving children and their families for about $25,000, that comes to a total of $525,000. Meanwhile, God has given us more than $500,000.” That led to an exciting decision. We said, “Let’s take them all.” Two weeks later our church stood and said, “We want to give away all this money for the glory

Martin Luther

preached every Sunday morning in three churches in three towns.

I’ve come to believe that one of the major reasons it’s so hard to find and keep quality leaders in our churches is that we’ve chased them away with unrealistic time demands.

We have taken the infinitely glorious Son of God, who endured the infinitely terrible wrath of God and who now reigns as the infinitely worthy Lord of all, and we have reduced him to a poor, puny Savior who is just begging for us to accept him.