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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 through the ordinary...

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 and light (Matthew...

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 diet of spiritual...