by David Wentz | Jan 14, 2021 | Christian Practice, Church, God's Purpose, Uncategorized
Many Christians today are making major decisions based on the words of modern-day prophets. I highly value the New Testament gift of prophecy. But we can be misled when we apply Old Testament principles to church-age prophecy. Before Pentecost (Acts 2), prophets had...
by David Wentz | Jan 15, 2019 | Christian Practice, Church, God's Purpose, Pastoring book chapters
Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. – Matthew 28:19 Like everything else about God, God’s love is infinite. It overflowed the Trinity to Adam and Eve. It overflowed Israel to...
by David Wentz | Jan 8, 2019 | Christian Practice, Church, God's Purpose, Pastoring book chapters
Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. – Ephesians 5:1 Every Christian is a child of God, adopted into the family (John 1:12). As pastors and church leaders, the second part of our job is to help these children of God grow up...
by David Wentz | Dec 27, 2018 | Christian Practice, Church, God's Purpose, Pastoring book chapters, Uncategorized
2This is Chapter 2 of Pastoring: The Nuts and Bolts. Previous chapters have also been published as blog posts here, and I plan to publish the rest one chapter per week. Scripture quotations are from the New Living Translation. The First Purpose of the Church: Be a...
by David Wentz | Dec 20, 2018 | Church, God's Purpose, Pastoring book chapters, Uncategorized
God’s Three-fold Purpose for the Church [This is the second post in what will eventually be the entire text of Pastoring: The Nuts and Bolts.] Most of this book consists of practical advice about how to do the day to day things involved in leading a local church....
by David Wentz | Sep 24, 2018 | Christian Practice, Church, God's Purpose
Don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. – The Bible, James 1:22 I didn’t start out to be a pastor or a writer. I started out to be the engineer in charge of building the first colony on the moon....
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