Tag: The Church
Why Gallop’s Numbers are Neither a Shock or Concern.
For the first time in American History attendance of Religion Services has dipped below 50% nationally, currently at 47%. This is neither a shock or a surprise, but an opportunity. Author’s note: The graphs...
Philip Schaff and John Williamson Nevin on The Church and Opinions.
“Private Judgement, if it remained private, was not sound judgment. In order for it to be rational and accurate in its interpretation of the outside world, it was necessary for such judgement to show...
Whose Church Is It Anyway?
Consumeristic Christianity is in decline, but it not going quietly. Rev. Jonathan David Faulkner Modern American culture has long been defined by commercialism and consumerism driven by a variant of materialism that demarks the...
Discipled into the False Gospel of Fear
It stands to reason that when the Bible tells us to fear God and not man, it means it. But there has been an intentional false Gospel of fear pervasive in Evangelical Culture and...
Trying Times and what to do about them.
Now is not the time for each one looking to his own interest, but to the interest of his neighbors. Rev. Jonathan David Faulkner In 2018 the Grammy Nominated Christian Metal Band Demon Hunter...
“Wait with Hope, Hope Now, Hope Always!”
When a People who have the greatest reason for hope, become the people of despair, something is wrong. Rev. Jonathan David Faulkner I wrote a few weeks ago that many in our congregations, and...
Jesus, Church History and Disability
To be truly Pro-Life, we need to consider all life, that includes those with disabilities, but what does the bible teach us about interacting with the welcoming and how do the Church Father’s inform...
Heal Your Church
2 Chronicles 7:14 is often deployed as a prayer for national renewal in modern times, but this is not an accurate application when held up to the Theology of the New Testament. The true...
Church, Your Pastors Need You!
With only 10% of pastors who start the ministry, finish the ministry, 78% of pastors feel they have no close friends, we have a crisis and it is only going to get worse. Jonathan...
The Building is Not the Church, but when this is over, you should Come to the Building.
“The Sense of the Church as an article of faith, shows what power it carries with it for the interior life of the soul.” – John Williamson Nevin “On the Church” 1857. Jonathan...