Posts from October 2022

Posts from October 2022

Church Constitution

Weekly Update – October 27th, 2022 In our September members’ meeting, the main proposal that was presented, was a complete rewrite of our church’s constitution.  The reason for this proposal is so that our church might best reflect the structure that is presented in the New Testament.  What we see throughout the New Testament is what we call congregationalism.  This is where the final authority for all matters, specifically regarding doctrine and direction, rests in the hands of the congregation…

Gathering to Endure

Weekly Update – October 20th, 2022 We need each other.  Have you ever thought about that?  Sure you have.  We have talked about it in various ways in the past.  That doesn’t mean it is any less true though.  We need each other.  I’m not simply referring to a basic human need for interaction or the need of others for our physical necessities such as food and water.  Instead, I am talking about the need we have as Christians to…

Sound Doctrine

Weekly Update – October 13th, 2022 Last Sunday we looked at Titus 2:1-10 and the effects that sound doctrine has upon the church.  Where Titus was stationed, on the island of Crete, some false teachers had come into the church, and with their false teaching they were “upsetting whole families” (1:11) and causing many to “turn away from the truth” (1:14).  As a result, those who turned away from the truth, ended up with lives that were “detestable, disobedient, unfit…

Examples of God’s Grace

Weekly Update – October 6th, 2022 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end,…