Contributed by Glenn Durham on May 27, 2008
Dr. Ed Stetzer directs church planting for the Southern Baptist Convention, one of the largest denominations in the country. He writes: "Harold stood up, paused for a moment, and began to speak softly, 'We don't want our church to die. We'll do what it takes.' That was when I first knew the church
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 22, 2010
WE'RE BUILDING TWO A DAY
In the 1880s the Methodist Church was privileged to have a leader named C. C. McCabe. He was a church extension pioneer and strategist, and a great achiever he was.
One day he was on a train, riding out to the Pacific Northwest to help develop and launch a strategy for
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 26, 2008
"Christ is building His people. He is gathering His flock. He is fulfilling His promise to be with the Christians to the end of the age. He is teaching by the Spirit and through His world. He is marking the Church off from the world through the sign of baptism and by making himself remembered and
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A SHEPHERD VS. A FISHERMAN
A shepherd is usually given an existing flock and maintains that flock in good fashion. A fisherman, by nature, is more aggressive than
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Dave Kinney on Aug 9, 2008
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NEVER LET THEM SEE THE GLORY
C.S. Lewis wrote the book, "The Screwtape Letters". In the book, "Screwtape" is the Devil and his demon is "Wormwood". This is what the Devil says to the demon about Christianity:
"Wormwood, the church is fertile field if you keep them bickering over details,
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
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REMEMBER THE MISSION
In 1629, when the favorite wife of Indian ruler Shah Jahan died, he ordered that a magnificent tomb be built as a memorial to her. The shah placed his wife's casket in the middle of a parcel of land, and construction of the temple literally began around it. But several years
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