by David Wentz | Jan 15, 2019 | Christian Practice, Church, God's Purpose, Pastoring book chapters
Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. – Matthew 28:19 Like everything else about God, God’s love is infinite. It overflowed the Trinity to Adam and Eve. It overflowed Israel to...
by David Wentz | Jan 8, 2019 | Christian Practice, Church, God's Purpose, Pastoring book chapters
Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. – Ephesians 5:1 Every Christian is a child of God, adopted into the family (John 1:12). As pastors and church leaders, the second part of our job is to help these children of God grow up...
by David Wentz | Dec 27, 2018 | Christian Practice, Church, God's Purpose, Pastoring book chapters, Uncategorized
2This is Chapter 2 of Pastoring: The Nuts and Bolts. Previous chapters have also been published as blog posts here, and I plan to publish the rest one chapter per week. Scripture quotations are from the New Living Translation. The First Purpose of the Church: Be a...
by David Wentz | Dec 13, 2018 | Christian Practice, Church, Pastoring book chapters, Uncategorized
This is the introduction to my book, Pastoring: The Nuts and Bolts. God told me, “Freely you have received, freely give.” Each chapter will be posted as a separate blog post. I pray it blesses you! Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker...
by David Wentz | Sep 24, 2018 | Christian Practice, Church, God's Purpose
Don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. – The Bible, James 1:22 I didn’t start out to be a pastor or a writer. I started out to be the engineer in charge of building the first colony on the moon....
by David Wentz | Sep 24, 2018 | Christian Practice, Church, God's Purpose, Uncategorized
“Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?” – The Bible, 1 Corinthians 3:16 If God could live anywhere where would it be? That sounds like a silly question. One of the perks of being God is that he can...
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