Martin Luther explains one of the chief reasons. Here’s what he says in The Freedom of a Christian (quoted in Don’t Stop Believing: Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough): Although I am an unworthy and condemned man, my God has given me in Christ all the riches of righteousness and salvation without any merit […]
To Transform a City: Tim Keller on How to Know if You are Reaching Your City
Tim Keller has an excellent article at Leadership Journal on what it takes to transform a city through the gospel. Let me highlight two things. First, one of the core ideas of the article is that reaching a city takes more than just one or two flourishing churches. It takes a “city-wide gospel movement.” Here’s […]
If You Want to Read One Book on the Church
I read (or re-read) about 20 books on the church this week (ironic — I’m writing a book on productivity, and yet I felt compelled to review my understanding of the church before fully diving in; there is a relationship there that I might talk about sometime). Many of the books were really good, but […]
God-Centeredness Leads to Other-Centeredness
If we are God-centered, we will be on the lookout to meet the needs of others and do them good. God-centeredness does not lead to an inward focus on ourselves, or simply our own relationship with God (as important as our own relationship with God is). Rather, it leads us up and out of ourselves […]
Who is Responsible for What Your Church Becomes?
Mark Dever, in What Is a Healthy Church?: Before we consider what the Bible says churches should be, which we will do in the first few chapters, I want you to consider why I would pose this question to you, especially if you are not a pastor. After all, isn’t a book on the topic […]
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