Newsflash: your pastor’s a sinner. Yup. The pastor you love, esteem, and admire not only makes mistakes but at times intentionally commits wrong, rebellious, and harmful actions. I’m not saying he endorses that kind of behavior. I bet he can’t stand the fact he struggles with certain sins. Maybe he’s the pastor who gets too […]
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Different churches define membership different ways. My local church defines it by the union of four committed relationships: to Christ (“I believe”), to church leadership (“I support”), to church community (“I belong”), and to the unchurched (“I go”). We could say if one is deeply committed to the first relationship (Christ) the others would take
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Recently Bruce Wesley, Lead Pastor of Clear Creek Community Church, wrote about CCCC’s recent shift to an elder structure that had virtually remained unchanged since our founding twenty years ago. In doing so, he also highlighted the path taken in our elder development process – one in which I was tasked to develop a training
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