Here’s a story I’ve heard twice this week from the building coordinator at Edgewater Baptist Church in New Orleans. (That’s my church.)
We had a team of Baptists from Georgia scheduled to work on our sanctuary for last week. Two weeks ago, we found out that the sanctuary had suffered extreme termite damage over [...]

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Here is a trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he desires a noble task. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He [...]

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Easily the most difficult question asked each individual interviewed was “how do you define success in your ministry context?” The general consensus was that success is not about numbers; it is about transformation. Each used a different word: restoration, life-change, and making disciples. Richard Kennedy said that success is defined by “the [...]

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