Thou Shalt Not … Amend the State Constitution?
This issue of A Public Witness takes you inside a hyperpartisan church for a taste of how the gospel of Jesus is being supplanted by an imperial lust for political power.
Church & Ministries
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Matt Chandler to Take Leave of Absence Following ‘inappropriate messaging’ | Baptist Press
FLOWER MOUND, Texas (BP) – The Village Church announced this morning (Aug. 28) that lead pastor Matt Chandler will take a leave of absence from teaching and preaching following his admission to “inappropriate messaging” with a woman on Instagram.
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East Texas planter discovers compelling – and surprising – need in hometown | Baptist Press
GLADEWATER, Texas (BP) – When God called Teddy Sorrells to plant a church in 2020, he expected to be sent to San Francisco or Denver, one of the popular church planting cities. Instead, a quick demographics study led him to plant in the small East Texas town he’d been trying…
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Do Christians Who Commit Suicide Go to Heaven? Christian Apologists Answer
Two Christian apologists have offered their thoughts on whether Christians who die by suicide go to Heaven or Hell when they die.
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Hillsong Church Purges Global Board to Make Room for Diversity, Include at Least 40% Women
Hillsong Church announced a raft of changes Tuesday meant to improve leadership in the megachurch network, including a purge of several directors from the church s global board to create a more ...
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FIRST-PERSON: Doctrine (theology) and behavior (practice) always go together | Baptist Press
LA MIRADA, Calif. (BP) -- No one can really know God and not serve Him, and no one can adequately serve God without knowing Him.
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Hillsong Church Australia Suffers Marked Drop in Giving, Attendance amid COVID-19, Scandals: Report
Hillsong Church Australia suffered significant drops in both giving and church attendance in 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic marched into its second year and a series of sex and financial scandals ...
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Bishop Slams ‘Negative Rhetoric’ as Conservative Methodists Declare End to Moratorium
In his first presidential address as president of the United Methodist Church’s Council of Bishops, Bishop Thomas Bickerton called on conservative groups encouraging churches to leave the denomination to stop the negative rhetoric. He accused the Global Methodist Church and the Wesleyan Covenant Association of winning new churches to their movement with fear.
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Enthusiasm, hopes for ‘fertile soil’ highlight annual meeting planning in New Orleans | Baptist Press
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – The enthusiasm was as thick as the late summer air as hundreds of pastors and church leaders gathered at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) to prepare to welcome thousands of messengers to the Crescent City in 2023.
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Another Reformed Resurgence?: Inside Costi Hinn’s Growing Arizona Church Plant
Underneath all the headlines spotlighting Costi Hinn s righteous indignation is a pastor of a local church that desires to live the simple life of feeding the sheep
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South Carolina Supreme Court Says 6 Church Properties Don’t Have to Be Returned to Episcopal Church
The South Carolina Supreme Court has lowered the number of church properties that a breakaway diocese must return to The Episcopal Church from 14 to eight
