For the church to welcome sexual sinners, it must be a community of grace where sinful people hear truth in the context of caring relationships, and where they learn that sexual sin isn’t unforgivable.
One of the biggest issue in our churches today, says Tim Geiger, is a lack of transparency. As a result, we have people who struggle with difficult issues — lust, substance abuse, eating disorders — but who have nowhere to go. For them, the church isn’t safe; it’s not where they go to find the help they need.
While grief is different for a pastor in certain respects, ultimately, congregations can love their pastors through times of loss with simple words — “I am sorry for your loss. I am praying for you. I care.”
The documentary was created by Grain, a St. Louis-based creative firm that helps its clients create beauty and uproot ugliness. Director John Pa hoped that sharing Higgins’ story would “at least start a conversation about these prejudices we have in our heads, minds, and hearts.”
“With the political upheaval that is dominating many countries in the Middle East, the church in the Arabic-speaking world is in a more critical need than ever before for a solid understanding of its faith and practice built upon the Scriptures.”
Westminster Theological Seminary (WTS) will host a celebration dinner in honor of Charles and Alice McGowan on March 2 in Nashville.
Though our founding heroes were flawed men, they were used by God to forge a continuing church that preserved much of American Presbyterianism’s best, those very things that attracted me at the start.
Drew Belz, a 2010 Covenant College graduate and an elder at New City East Lake PCA in Chattanooga, is a co-founder of Fancy Rhino, a media and advertising company that provides video content for national brands and tells original stories through feature documentaries.
Registration is now open for the 2017 PCA Global Missions Conference. MTW and Park Cities Presbyterian Church will co-sponsor the conference to be held Nov. 10–12 in Dallas, Texas. This year’s theme is “This Is Missions.”
If politics makes strange bedfellows, then the call of Christ makes stranger ones still.