Church and Ministry Articles
What is the church?
Six functions of the church
Upward, inward and outward in word and deed
The goal of the Christian life
Turn-key or makeover?
Whatever happened to church growth?
Why don't more people go to church?
When goals are bigger than our accomplishments
"Ministry" means "service"
Leadership roles in the church
Leadership in the church
Lay ministries
Lay members' role in the early church
"To one another" — living in Christian community
Articles about spiritual gifts
Working together for the gospel
Give me one good reason to go to church
Why you need the church
The quest for the ideal church
Your church needs you
Building unity: the story of Euodia and Syntyche
Church buildings and church growth
Good things in small packages
What makes a church grow?
Giving love and honor to pastors
The bivocational pastor
Code of ethics for elders
Women in ministry
Women who spoke the word of God
Women in leadership
Paul's Policy on Women: Three Key Questions
Women's ministry resource material
Youth ministry
- a series by Jeb Egbert and Ted Johnston
Steps forward in youth ministry, by Dan Rogers
Loving God: foundation for youth ministry
Youth ministry and the great commission
How SEP supports healthy youth ministries
Building young believers
Disciplemaking includes equipping workers
Equipping our youths for peer evangelism
How to make your congregation youth-friendly
Youth ministry includes developing young leaders
CANS1: Building young believers through community
CANS2: Building young believers through adoration
CANS3: Building young believers through nurture
CANS4: Building young believers through serving
Disciplemaking ministry foundations
Building an atmosphere of love
The adoration of Christ
Prayerful dependence
Communication of the Word
Building a biblical group image in your youth ministry
Having a "commitment to contact" in your youth ministry
Disciplemaking ministry foundations, conclusion
Other articles about youth ministry:
Modification, formation, reformation Steve Argue and Dave Livermore
Evangelizing postmodern youth Mark Tittley
Organizing non-Christian youths into the church Mark Titley
What is youth ministry? Jeb Egbert
Youth ministry: the importance of prayer Jeb Egbert
Youth ministry must be spiritual Jeb Egbert
Youth ministry values and mission Ted Johnston
Back to the future of youth ministry Mark Cannister
Youth ministry: playing as a team Kara Eckman Powell
Teen ministry: rethinking our paradigm David Smith
For articles about children's ministry, go to www.christianodyssey.com/children
"From Christ the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work" (Eph 4:16).
U.S. Church Administration Manual
Ministry and money
- Money and worship
- Poverty and generosity
- Three reasons to give
- How much is freedom worth?
- Stewardship involves all of life
- A command Paul did not obey: a study of 1 Cor. 9
- The grace of giving: a study of 2 Cor. 8
- Rich in good works: a study of 2 Cor. 9
Small groups
Cell-based church: community, nurturing and outreach
Small groups or cell groups?
Edification through holistic small groups
Spiritual formation — 15 small group lesson plans
Church history
Early church history — a broadening perspective
The road to Nicea — and beyond
Quartodeciman controversy
The Nicene Creed
The Apostles' Creed
The African-American church in America
The Apostles Creed
Athanasius lists the New Testament writings
Black history month: an interview with Curtis May, with section about M.L. King, Jr.
Christmas past and present in the church
Easter in the church
Fasting and repentance after the Salem witch trials
The great disappointment: When Jesus did not return on October 22, 1844
The 'great schism' of the church: Western and Eastern churches separate
Jesus Christ 'of one substance with the Father" - the formula of Nicea
The Nicene Creed
Persecution, penance, and "the lapsed"
The Protestant Church in Hitler's Germany and the Barmen Declaration
One 'mere Christian' in church history: C.S. Lewis
Pentecost: birth of the church
William Tyndale and the birth of the English Bible
When astronomy became a theological football: Galileo
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