Right now my older kids are taking my younger kids and others and discipling them. My kids have all these “aunts and uncles” who are really just brothers and sisters in Christ. But you propose some intriguing ideas about children serving the church.
Many books about church ministry emphasize adults ministering to kids. But the blessing is going to come from the work itself, from the hard work you do to love and serve one another. We’re tempted to want the church to be the same way-let me accomplish what I want in as little time as possible. Technology is really about speed: doing everything faster and with less effort. How have revolutions in technology influenced American church practices and habits? But many of these run counter to the digitized lives we live today, especially in places like San Francisco.
Your book exhorts churches to recommit to Acts 2 practices like extended prayer, radical love and service, and intimate fellowship within the home. Writer and fellow Bay-area resident Rachael Starke spoke with Chan about the blessings that come from recommitting to church life as God designed it. His latest book, Letters to the Church, is a pastoral call for American churches to consider whether their values and practices are consistent with Scripture. Returning to California, he began planting churches in his home and the homes of others in his San Francisco neighborhood. He’d simply grown convicted over his challenges in steering a large ministry in accordance with biblical values.Ĭhan sold his house and spent a year traveling through Southeast Asia, visiting churches and interacting with church leaders. There was no disqualifying moral failure. Eight years ago, Francis Chan resigned as senior pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California-the church he helped grow from 30 people gathered in a living room to a multimillion-dollar ministry.
0 kommentar(er)
