Mark Wilson lives in Turkey and ministers there. He has seen firsthand the trials and challenges facing Christians in Muslim contexts. Wilson brings this perspective to a new book he has written on the book of Revelation (2014, The Weaver Book Company). The book’s subtitle sets the goal of putting one of the most difficult […]
How would you like to be the guy at a major Evangelical apologetics ministry who gets to answer all the critical emails and letters that come in? Add in that your particular ministry holds to a Biblically- defensible but increasingly unpopular position on young-earth creationism, and you find yourself shot at not just by secular
There is an epidemic within many evangelical churches. We have relegated evangelism to the level of programs. Many church members look at their local body and think, “we are doing evangelism-we have a children’s ministry, VBS, special events, and even may go door-to-door.” This is a terrible confusion of terms and focus. Evangelism is not
I pastor a smaller, traditional Baptist church. We have a single pastor/elder, 2 (soon to be 3) deacons, and a board of trustees. This makes pastoral leadership a little bit of a lonely place. My long-term goal is for our church to have lay elders. But what do elders do? What’s our “job” (even if
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I pastor a church in rural Indiana. If you drive out of our church parking lot and go six miles west, you will come across an apostolic church that advertises themselves as the place to “experience Pentecost every Sunday.” If you drive ten miles east, you will pass a church that advertises much the same
