When the Grace Family of Churches in Georgia planted a new church in the heart of Atlanta, it wanted that church to be like the one described in Acts 2, devoted to fellowship, to prayer and to breaking bread together. It wanted to see what house church pastor Rob Kaple called “the expression of the first century church.” […]
Recent headlines have proclaimed people are leaving the church “in droves.” Even Christians agree the church is dying, that it’s becoming irrelevant. But what does God say about His church? Here are 11 Bible passages that tell us how God sees the church, how the early church acted and how we as believers are a part of its […]
The church is dying – that is, if the headlines are to be believed. Many of the recent headlines have come from the Pew Research Center’s report America’s Changing Religious Landscape, released in mid-May. That study found the Christian share of the United States population is decreasing. Meantime, the number of adults who do not identify with […]
Early one Thursday afternoon in June, about 20 doctoral students from Fuller Theological Seminary gathered in the lobby of River City Community Church in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the west side of Chicago. They’d come from Pasadena, California, for a weeklong, intensive course and spent the morning touring River City’s space in a renovated […]
