Craig Glassock explains how God used a letter from a suffering saint to help him cling to Christ. * Names have been changed. I was once a prisoner of chronic illness, housebound with the black dog as my companion. As ‘Groundhog Days’ became years my plans for the future vaporized. When I asked medical specialists if I would ever recover, most just shrugged …
Assessing Maturity
How would you assess the maturity of your church? If you were designing a maturity survey for your members, what questions would you ask? Here’s one essential question: ‘what Christian preachers and writers are your members attracted to and why?’ So why should this question be at the top of the list for any maturity survey? Discernment …
Six Myths of Discipleship
Myth 1: Discipleship is a second stage of Christian experience after conversion. You can be a Christian but not a disciple. Many people think of discipleship as what happens after conversion. They think that It is only after someone becomes Christian that they ‘disciple’ them, by training in the disciplines of the Christian life. In a similar way, they …