How do we encourage and build up the church?

1 Thessalonians 5:11 exhorts us, as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, to ‘encourage one another and build each other up’. But what are the key

If we don’t want a team exclusively of rightbacks, we might need to think about training people differently

This week marks the start of Euro 2021. As an England fan, hope springs eternal. Not much hope, it bears saying, but hope nonetheless. This

In praise of a summer slowdown

I wonder how you have spent the summer? Some of us plough on with all our usual activities. Everything we usually run continues without pause.

What is church membership?

We have been thinking about membership a lot as elders of our church. I have previously posted our thoughts on what we expect of church

The Lord’s Supper constitutes a church

When a believer comes to faith, they join the universal church. But what creates a local church? If we (rightly) do not call a couple

Does the Bible presuppose the baptism of all members of the church?

Should the church expect all its members to be baptised? Does scripture suggest all those who joined the church had already been baptised? Here is

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