Serious About Scripture

Mentoring and motivating Christ’s people to live his words

An Appeal for the Use of House Churches to Extend Sanctuary-Style Churches

This brief article is a plea. I’m not going to give an apologetic for the house church model. You may read some of this on our website (christfellowshipkc.org) or other places. I am only going to make an appeal for sanctuary-style churches to consider using the house church concept to advance their work for God. I am especially concerned that readers of our articles, most of whom have sound theology and practice, would pick up the burden for this now.…

An Encouraging Tale About Trepidatiously Reading Scripture Publicly

Jackson was a newly married young man who had been converted as a teenager and had eagerly participated in his local church ever since. One Saturday evening, as he and his wife were finishing a documentary, he got a call from one of his pastors. “Hi Jackson, this is Matt. How are you, brother?” “I’m great, Pastor Matt. What’s going on?” “Well, Lucas was going to read Scripture tomorrow in our meeting, but he has a fever and won’t make…

Mother Teresa Leona

James, the youth: If a person shows all the outward signs of being a Christian, should we assume the person is truly a Christian? The elderly but wiser Mr. Brockton: Not at all. The evidence for being a Christian will undoubtedly be seen in every true Christian, but the appearance of the evidence may deceive you. You must start at the starting place in your observations and be careful not to mistake the effect for the means. James: But suppose…

Check Your Guns at the Door: Responding Like Christians to Social Media, Blogs and Web Forums

Those of us who have a ministry of writing are usually pretty tough folks. Many of us have been in the combat zone for quite a while and can take almost anything that is said by readers of our articles. This short is more about my embarrassment for all of us who are web-interactive Christians than it is for my own hide. In short, I’m appealing for etiquette characteristic of believers in reader’s responses to articles, blog entries, and social…