Hint: They aren’t biblical.
This is the third part of a longer conversation on the topic of race and class. Check out part 1 and 2 here. In this video, Mez McConnell, Ian Williamson, John Onwuchekwa, and Sung Kim talk about whether or not there really is a class and race problem in evangelical churches. Video Transcript Mez: What's […]
This is the second part of a longer conversation on the topic of race and class. In this video, Mez McConnell and John Onwuchekwa talk about the relationship between the race struggle in the United States and the class struggle in the UK. Video Transcript Mez: I’m interested in race, cause obviously you're black, right? […]
This is the first part of a longer conversation on the topic of race and class. In this video, Mez McConnell, Ian Williamson, John Onwuchekwa, and Sung Kim discuss what a largely white church in Scotland has in common with a largely black church in America. Video Transcript Mez: You and I, John, and to […]
The early years Meet Joe. Joe has never ventured far from where he was born in downtown Baltimore. He doesn’t know his dad who ended up in prison when he was a baby and died before Joe was eighteen. His Mom is an alcoholic and gambling addict. They haven’t spoken much since he moved in […]
In Part 1, we saw that there is a problem with a lot of Christian counselling, which puts SELF at the centre. So how do we dethrone self and put Christ in the centre? Who are the best people to help? There are many complicated and varied problems out there in the world right now. […]
Music/singing is a unique and fundamental part of corporate worship. Unique in its distinction as the mutual and participatory act of worship. Set apart from the reading of the Bible, praying, and the preaching of God’s Word by its unifying nature, where the entire church joins together with one voice to sing praises to God. […]
In the Himalayas, an old donkey shows the young donkey the ropes on treacherous mountain climbs. This is a great lesson for Christ’s church.
Where our church is located, it’s a community that’s largely Spanish-speaking immigrants, many of whom are very poor. And so we’ve had to think, how do we, as a people who don’t speak Spanish, reach out to this community.
The work is difficult . . . at times it’s frightening. . . . I think, more cynically, there’s not much money to be made, and not a lot of resources flowing back into those communities.
I want us to begin today thinking about some of the basics when it comes to counselling, the Christian, and the local church. Paul Tripp says that very many of us, and probably most Christians we know, live in what he describes as the gospel gap of the here and now. So, people have a […]