At Oldham Bethel Church, we have a significant number of people for whom English is not their first language. Most of our service takes place
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We had a baptism yesterday: here’s what we did
At Oldham Bethel Church, we had the privilege of baptising and bringing into membership one of our Iranian brothers. There are several things going on
Beware the Elijah-complex: a lesson from history
As followers of this blog will know, or those of you who care enough to read the ‘About’ page, my formative Christian years were spent
The problem with our weekly ‘do what you feel’ gathering
Years ago, The Simpsons skewered the whole concept of the ‘if it feels good, do it’ culture. In the process, they also showed the nonsense
What does healthy church membership look like?
I have previously written about why we should not baptise those who would not join the church in membership. We noted that baptism was biblically
Why we shouldn’t baptise those who won’t join in membership
One only has to read the Great Commission to see that Jesus commands baptism for his followers. The call was to ‘go into all the world