While insisting that they aren’t interested in doing so, those who embrace new and alien ideas about the church and her ministry to increase attendance, ministries, or the numbers of congregations are preserving the institution in their own way. Driven by the measures of worldly success, they stumble into the institution preservation that they desire to avoid. Whatever our motives or approaches, it is neither our place nor our work to preserve the church; we are called to preserve something else. Revitalizing the declining church is a call to preserve our confession rather than our institution. It is a call that we can answer with the confidence that, because of the confession that the Lord graciously preserves through us, He will preserve His church and she will become “become increasingly larger in succeeding generations
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:49:55 +0000
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