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Some necessary elements and characteristics of healthy churches are the following: future-oriented, vision-driven and high-risk faith. This means that the leadership of healthy churches must be willing to make the hard choices and hard changes other leaders are unwilling to make. This requires supernatural, Holy Spirit enabled courage. J.D. Greear said, “God does not call the brave; He makes brave the called.” II Timothy 1:7 tells us that God has not given us the spirit of fear but ...
I was just thinking how, once again, I heard it said that the church was born on the Day of Pentecost. In my opinion, and I think I can back it up by Scripture, that is erroneous. The Bible never indicates that perspective, which is steeped in Catholic tradition.
The Called Out
The Greek word used for church in the New Testament is ekklesia. It is formulated from two words which mean...