“Building the Church by Building Strong Families.” That is the MO of almost all churches in America today. But the problem with trying to build the kingdom of God on earth by building spiritually healthy families is that it has been tried before. Many times, in fact. For centuries. And each attempt has failed miserably.
Herb Reese
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Walk into any church in America and you will immediately notice one thing: it is all about nuclear families (i.e., a husband and a wife who are married and raise their own children to adulthood), usually to the exclusion of other ministries such as widows, single mothers, and the disabled.
This post is part of a series entitled, “A Comprehensive Church-Based Ministry to Single Moms“. There have always been single moms in every culture in the history of humanity. By far the majority of those single moms have been young widows and their children. But today, in modern America, a […]
As much as anything else, single motherhood in America has been impacted by its post Christian culture.
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There are two kinds of Christians in this world: those who acknowledge that at times they have doubted their faith…and liars. Of course, Christianity — and religion in general — do not have a monopoly on doubt. Some philosophers have doubted the existence of the external world (solipsism). And famous […]
Men’s team ministry fascinates me for many reasons. One if them is the way it involves several different kinds of ministry. It involves men’s ministry, of course. But it also involves ministries to widows, widowers, single moms and dads, fatherless and motherless children, the disabled, and anyone else with long […]
A healthy men’s ministry is like a lush, green lawn. When a lawn has the necessary elements for it to thrive – rich soil, water, sunlight, and nutrients – it thrives. Great lawns don’t just happen. They need constant attention and cultivation, otherwise, they wither and die. Men’s ministry is […]
Be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he […]
If you have one million earthlings settling Mars, then it’s inevitable that a First Baptist Church of Mars (and a lot of other churches, mosques and temples) is going to pop up.