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Sharing our lives as extended family

Posted by Tim Chester on

The GCM Collective has identified some of our key distinctives and are working an explanatory paragraph for each one. Here's the fourth ... 4. Sharing our lives as extended family The church is the community created by the gospel. So Christians are not individuals who gather for meetings...

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Tags: community, decisions, decision-making, conflict, church, church life

Therefore Go

Posted by Tim Chester on

Last year the UK publishing group Authentic Media went bust before being bought out by Koorong Books. One of the casualties in this process was Andrew Baughen's book Therefore Go. It was released around this time and so received very little publicity or attention. This is a big shame because...

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Tags: evangelism, church, church-based evangelism

The soul of the body of Christ

Posted by Tim Chester on

More quotes from Francis Chan’s The Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit, David C. Cook, 2009. Available here from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. St. Augustine: “What the soul is in our body, the Holy Spirit is in the body of Christ, which is the...

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Tags: holy spirit, review, spirit, francis chan, soul, body of christ, church