Nick Sorenson's take on Living for Christ and Serving in the Church

"President" of the Church?  We're all familiar with the term "president". Head honcho, Top Dog, Chief Executive Officer, are all words we could substitute for the word president. So why not use this word in the leadership of the church? After all there are many denominations who DO use it.  Well the first question to ask, is the office of president (or the implication of a top dog) Biblical? It couldn't hurt anything could it? Why bother oneself with examining the role?  To be very honest, I never thought much about it and generally accepted the idea. That is until now. I recently stumbled across the smoldering embers of a formerly strong (10s of thousands) group called "The Way International". We were invited to a local home group hosted by the family of my son's co-worker. Out of respect for the friend of my son's, and for the fact that I support the idea of the home church, we decided to check it out. In defense of the kind local couple...

My 95 Theses Pertaining to the Modern Evangelical Church Ok, not 95 and no, I do not agree with many of Luther's beliefs. Where Luther and I would see eye to eye is in the (re)evaluation of something we'd grown up accepting, and to a certain extent swallowing hook line and sinker.   So let the discussion begin. I am sure there are more than 95 issues with the norms we've accepted as the church, but here are just a small number that I believe are at least questionable. Much like Luther's theses, what I will be implying here is that the church has evolved, and strayed as it has done so. And just as Luther tried to do with the Catholic church, let's, as he did, hold our own (existing) view of the church up to the authority of Scripture. After all, as Christians, the Bible, in its entirety, is our belief system. Have we shaped our views pertaining to church structure upon what we've read in Scripture or is it simply mirroring our current church cult ure (note the i...