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but also a community feast when we try to welcome the lonely people or immigrants and be family for them. We may eat together
which is massively and culturally a Catholic country
SBC leaders should be encouraging churches to help families find a loving relationship with Christ despite changes affecting family circumstances
but it is typical of thousands of American homes. We can either accept and affirm them
one sees how wistfully the authors wish for the past even as they accuse the SBC organizational leaders of not acknowledging the cultural changes around them.
in our own time we see the family attacked on a number of fronts. Too many Southern Baptists have embraced unbiblical notions about marriage and family. Too often we believe that children are a burden rather than a blessing and smaller families are more
we are all for families. But do the authors overstep in encouraging Southern Baptists to have big families?
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the project creates one-to-one relationships between selected experienced leaders in WMU (emeritus leaders) and selected young leaders within its membership. The more experienced leaders pass on to the next generation their love and commitment to mission
the local churc h is encouraged to promote one-to-one mentoring relationships between mature Christian members and children
Thinking inside the boxes
By Bob Burroughs Every church has multiple boxes. There is the Worship Box. This box is very large, for it must accommodate a wide variety of people. The Worship Box often has “dividers” that are called such names as “Traditional,”…
A recipe for blended worship
By Bob Burroughs I prefer to call the “worship wars” by another name: “worship preferences.” This, to me, better describes the situation in the vast majority of churches in our country today. We are really not at “war” over worship…