Tag «Church»

21st Century Restoration Or Digression?

Yesterday I read an excerpt from a new book that is due to be released by Leafwood Press.  The book is entitled, “One Church,” and it asks if “churches of Christ” will join the 21st Century Restoration.  Personally, I’m all in favor of restoration.  My problem with the excerpt I read is that the author is …

A New Survey

A new survey conducted by “The Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life” was recently released.  This new study surveyed 35,000 adult Americans, a rather large sampling of people.  One of the findings of this survey stated that 44% of American adults have left the denomination of their childhood. When I read that finding, I began to …

Canceling Church

Dan Williams tells the story of two preachers who were visiting over a cup of coffee.  The first preacher said to the second, “I cancelled our Sunday night services about five months ago.”  “You did?” the second preacher replied, “What do your church members think?”  The first preacher said, “I suspect they’ll be pretty upset …