People often ask me, “Why can’t we have it both ways – the best of both worlds – age segregation in the church and fathers teaching and leading their homes?” The answer is, “Why would we want it both ways when...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
During the week of September 11, 2001, a gathering of pastors, elders, and church leaders from across gathered with Vision Forum Ministries and the newly formed National Center for Family-Integrated Churches in San Antonio for the first ever...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Question: What does the message of Divided the movie have to do with the gospel? To answer this question, you must consider two other questions. First, how important is the gospel? Second, how important is the method of the communication of the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Here is an example of normal life among the people of God – children are included. And He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of thieves.' " Then the blind and the lame came...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
What have we learned from this controversy over “Family of Families”? The missionary George Whitefield said that “critics are the unpaid guardians of the soul,” and so we are grateful for both dialog and diatribe. It has...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Does Individual Church Membership Dissolve Family Relationships? In many modern churches, the family is barely acknowledged. The result is neglect. This creates a brand of church life where the family is not encouraged or nourished to be what it...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
By saying ‘the church is a family of families,” are we confusing the church and the family? When Andreas Kostenberger used the phrase "family of families” to describe the church in his excellent book God, Marriage, and Family,1...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
What we mean by "the church is a family of families" It is a falsehood to say that the National Center for Family-Integrated Churches advocates a “family of families” ecclesiology. In fact, our understanding of the nature of the church...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In 2001, when Charles Swindoll wrote the foreword to Dennis Rainey’s book, Ministering to Twenty-First Century Families he said the church is “a family of families.” He was merely stating in his characteristic, winsome way that...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The pattern of discipleship that Jesus used is absolutely what we should follow. However, many people believe that Jesus was like a modern day youth pastor who took 12 kids out of their homes and displaced their fathers. Let’s explain some...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
