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Mark #6 - Biblical Understanding of Church Membership 20.10.2010 1:02:22 ↓

The SBC loves to tout that we are the largest denomination in the United States with 16,266,920 members in 44,696 churches. That sounds impressive until you read the next line on the annual report and discover that the average attendance in worship in those same churches is 6,148,868. This means that only 37.8% of all the SBC members attend worship services on any given week - a little more than t...

Mark #5 - Biblical Understanding of Evangelism 13.10.2010 1:00:32 ↓

Every year seems to produce "the greatest witnessing opportunity in decades." However in relying on events instead of a biblical understanding of evangelism, very little lasting impact is made. As Bayly tried to explain in his parable, the church spends too much time on outreach methods that are grandiose and highly visible, but often impersonal and ineffective. It appears we have drifted from the...

Mark #4 - Biblical Understanding of Conversion 06.10.2010 1:06:11 ↓

If you have traveled overseas, you know you must convert your money into the local currency. It is almost always the case that vendors in foreign lands do not recognize or accept American dollars. So, the traveler must go to a bank or currency exchange to trade in his dollars for Euros or rupees or pounds or liras or francs or pesos. You end up with the same amount of money relative to that cultur...

Mark #3 - The Gospel, Part 2 29.09.2010 57:06 ↓

The message about the redeeming work of God in the atonement of Jesus Christ is the greatest information this world has ever received. It is more than news; it is good news. What is this news? That is the ultimate question. People everywhere disagree over the definition of the news and even evangelicals have a difficult time coming to an agreement over what is the gospel and what is not the gospel...

Mark #3 - The Gospel, Part 1 22.09.2010 49:19 ↓

The message about the redeeming work of God in the atonement of Jesus Christ is the greatest information this world has ever received. It is more than news; it is good news. What is this news? That is the ultimate question. People everywhere disagree over the definition of the news and even evangelicals have a difficult time coming to an agreement over what is the gospel and what is not the gospel...

Mark #2 - Biblical Theology 15.09.2010 1:01:14 ↓

The Christian often approaches the Bible in the very same way. Most evangelicals view their Bible as a difficult puzzle to be solved. They have been taught their whole lives -through unintentional pastoral neglect or outright doctrinal instruction - that the Bible is made up of a great jumble of disconnected pieces. In other words, many Christians have grown up in the church looking at the Bible a...

Mark #1 - Expository Preaching 08.09.2010 58:51 ↓

Expository preaching is becoming increasingly popular and we can only rejoice in this trend. Expository preaching is often defined as "going through a book of the Bible verse-by-verse" but it is much more than this. Some think expository preaching is doing a line-by-line verbal commentary on a passage with a few points of application tacked on to the end of the message. Again, it is much more than...