In the precious article, I wrote in the need to equip our people to be salt and light in their pursuit of fulfilling the Great Commission. That happens through relationships and the witness of a godly life. But what kind of relationships are we talking about? What kind of relational interactions set us up to display the love of Christ and love our neighbor with the gospel? We address that in our sixth commitment. We are committed to reaching our community with the gospel thro

The Great Commission is foundational to biblical Christianity, yet the church's method in training up believers to fulfill it is often lackluster at best, and unbiblical at worst. If we are to be a local church that majors on what the bible calls important, we must take careful and calculated steps to teach and equip our people to see this glorious assignment realized among us. To that end, we come to our fifth commitment. We are committed to equipping our people to be salt a

We live in a day of shallow, therapeutic preaching. Most of the messages coming out of evangelical churches today do little more than tickle the ears of the unbelieving visitor so they become convinced that we aren't those "weird Christians" they keep hearing about but are actually just as cool and worldly as they are. This approach to preaching isn't serving the Christians in the congregation, but is, in reality, stifling their would-be growth by keeping them on a steady die

The third commitment reads as follows: We are committed to a biblically-shaped, God-prescribed, covenant renewal worship service (Deuteronomy 29-30). Let's look at what that means and how it affects our daily lives. Biblically-shaped, God-prescribed I won't belabor this point, but suffice it to say that every church is following some sort of set plan for their worship service. Even the most anti-structure churches have structure, they just don't want to admit it. Since this i

The second commitment reads as follows: We are committed to maintaining the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Ephesians 4:3), expressed through a generous and gracious orthodoxy. Let's take a look at what we do and don't mean by that. What we don't mean Blind fellowship and blanket agreement are both dangerous forms of what I am discussing in this article. This happens rather frequently in evangelicalism. The danger is found in slapping "unity" on everything we do, fu

This article will be the first in an eight-part series on the commitments of Heritage Bible Church. We have a doctrinal statement, which can be found on our church's website, but we also wanted to put down in writing the beliefs and practices that we believe will act as pillars for decades to come. These 8 commitments form all of worship and life here at Heritage Bible Church. They are like pillars, foundational supports of all that we do; if any were to be removed, we believ

Family UpdateOn April 26th, my wife gave birth to our third child—Georgia Grace Vargas. She has been a beautiful addition to our family, and we praise God for how He

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