Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 4, 2008
Wall Street Journal
Banned From Church
Reviving an ancient practice, churches are exposing sinners and shunning those who won’t repent.
By ALEXANDRA ALTER
January 18, 2008; Page W1
On a quiet Sunday morning in June, as worshippers settled into the pews at Allen Baptist Church in southwestern
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Independent/Bible
“F. B. Meyer was pastor of Christ’s Church in London at the time that G. Campbell Morgan was pastor of Westminster Chapel and Charles H. Spurgeon was pastor of the Metropolitan Chapel. Both Morgan and Spurgeon often had much larger audiences than did Meyer. Troubled by envy, Meyer confessed that
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Methodist
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 15, 2008
Loren Mead: The mission of God and His church is “to see that no pain is unshared, not hurt unnoticed, no hunger untouched, no loss grieved alone, no death unknown, and no joy uncelebrated…The Church is to identify itself with the suffering that creeps into every life, every home, every
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2008
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While pastoring a church in north Louisiana I was helping a friend with a problem he had with a car. He was a mechanic by trade and profession. His wife made the best biscuits you ever put in your mouth. Having stopped at the right time several times before I knew when she set them on the table. He
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Contributed by Glenn Durham on Mar 11, 2008
A church in New York in 1963 closed down and someone stuck a sign on the outside of the front door: “Gone out of business. Didn’t know what our business was.”
Is your business honoring Jesus Christ? Is your business listening to his word? Is your business following him in every area of your life?
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Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by James Jack on Mar 17, 2008
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Dr Tim Keller is the senior minister in a church next to the world trade centre – the Redeemer Church. And he talks about a debate he was in with a Muslim scholar before a university audience. The debate went on as most of those debates do with perfect civility as they expressed their point of
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Denomination:
Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"What is the church?The best way to kill a church is to squeeze it into a building. For without contact with people in need and publicly witnessing
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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In a live church the preacher does not do all the talking. Dependable witnesses are as indispensable in the church as in the courtroom. Lawyers
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 6, 2009
As a child at church camp, a missionary told us the story of a missionaries traveling into a remote village that was rarely visited by outsiders. Living as their ancient ancestors did, the people were fascinated with motorized vehicles and electricity. These missionaries brought in a generator to
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 19, 2009
John MacArthur: "Godly, Biblical church growth results from every member of the body fully using his spiritual gift, in submission to the Holy
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Baptist
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on May 28, 2009
THE FIFTH CENTURY NORTH AFRICAN CHURCH FATHER AUGUSTINE SAID THAT “WHOEVER DENIES THE TRINITY IS IN DANGER OF LOSING HIS SALVATION : YET ON THE OTHER THE SIDE OF THE COIN HE SAID, “WHOEVER TRIES TO UNDERSTAND THE TRINITY IS IN DANGER OF LOSING HIS MIND.” P145 THE MOSIAC OF CHRISTIAN BELIEF
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
If every church member in the United States were suddenly to lose his/her job and went on welfare, and yet were willing to tithe from the minimal amount received from public assistance,
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Denomination:
Pentecostal
A man came to the church I was serving. He needed help on Christmas Eve. After giving him some food I asked him where he goes to church. He never goes. I told him he was welcome here. He said, “I know I need God; He’s the only one who will never turn His back on you.”
The man was
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Denomination:
United Methodist
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