General Assembly can be bewildering for first time commissioners. Dr. Stephen Estock has authored a very helpful guidebook which Reasoning Together will post, chapter-by-chapter, over the next four weeks.

Confronting our own fears may be the most difficult reform we face.

After three years of work, deliberation, and heated debate at General Assembly, the Ad-Interim Committee on Insider Movements has submitted its final report to the 42nd General Assembly.

By making explicit what we do believe, the Apostles’ Creed guards the church against what we don’t believe. The Creed allows Christians to identify and avoid inadequate or harmful versions of the story.

“Wade Williams was more biblically and spiritually driven than any other musician I’ve known — so evangelistic and mission-minded.”

Letter urges leaders to welcome differences of opinion and discourse on various issues, while affirming “the need for our leadership to always be searching for the center so that unity might be maintained and our mission might be accomplished.”

Even the best churches face conflict about vision and philosophy, battles over worship style, or worse — angry splits. Amid this turmoil, it seems impossible that two vastly different churches would come together to form a multigenerational, multiethnic community with a vision for Gospel transformation.

The Resurrection declared that death has been defeated and that life after death is no longer a theoretical concept but a surety.

“You get to see the demographic shift from being, say, just a small ministry located primarily in the Southeast, to a national ministry reaching coast to coast in the United States,” says Ryan Moore.

Athens, Georgia, is filled with dreamers. Boys who lie awake at night hoping they’ll grow up to be professional football players, basketball players, rappers. But when they get the question — what if it doesn’t work out? — their answer is always the same: “I don’t know.”