By Ed Marcelle
If Genesis two is all about marriage's design, then Ephesians five is all about restoration and relationship.
Butchering Ephesians Five.
A lot of people (especially my more liberal Christian friends) will start at Ephesians 5:21 with “submit to one another” and stop right there. And this is where they get their view of marriage: that it is this two-headed beast, where man and woman submit to each other and no one is really the head.
The conservative and fundamentalist Christian’s favorite marriage verse is Ephesians 5:22 – “wives submit to your husbands.” They stop here and miss the big picture.
Ephesians Five Brings the Gospel to the Broken Genesis Design for Marriage.
But if we go through the whole chapter, we see that the ...
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This February 2-4, abandon the cold and head to sunny Orlando to join us for the two-part event -- Acts 29 Boot Camp and Resurgence Conference: Our Fathers and Our Future.
For those who register for the conference plus boot camp (no additional charge), we are bringing in four Acts 29 church planters to teach -- these pastors' workshops are available only to boot camp registrants.
For those who want to be assessed or credited for boot camp, these are required sessions. Here's the list of topics and who our speakers are:
REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION
Acts 29 Boot Camp Workshop Schedule:
February 2, 2011:
1:00 pm - "Why the Gospel Matters" Daniel Montgomery2:00pm - "Finding Rhythm and Balance in Your Work as Church Planter" Tyler Jones
February 3, ...
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Scott Thomas spent some time meeting with Dave Harvey last week in Philadelphia. Dave oversees church-planting with Sovereign Grace Ministries, authored When Sinners Say I Do, and has finished another book, Rescuing Ambition, scheduled for publishing in Spring 2010.
Dave is speaking at the Acts 29 Louisville Boot Camp, "Ambition," on November 10-11.
See the FULL SCHEDULE HERE and REGISTER HERE
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Just Another Ministry Monday?
Jonathan McIntosh posts the top reasons pastors say they want to quit: 1) to protect their family, 2) criticism, 3) the work is too hard, 4) they're restless, 5) they're jealous of others' talents & giftings, 6) nobody & nothing seems to change. Have another reason and want to voice it? Follow @JonMcIntosh, @acts29 and other church planting leaders as they conduct more "Twitter polls" in the future.
Gospel Awakening Defined via Chan Kilgore
Chan serves on the Acts 29 Network's Board of Directors and oversees the Florida Region. He writes, "a Gospel Awakening is when a person's affections are gripped with the beauty of the holiness and love of God and broken by the depth of their own sin." Chan has a four page article on what an "Awakening" ...
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Acts 29 Church Planting Foundations ConferenceLondon, EnglandOver 100 men from 12 different countries assembled at St James Church in Clerkenwell for the inaugural Acts 29 Church Planting Conference to launch Acts 29 in Western Europe and to establish Steve Timmis as its Director. The men were anxious to learn and to interact with other church planters and church planting leaders.
Standing on the outside of the church in London where we are having the conference.
“Church is the result of mission and the means of mission,” said Steve Timmis. He argued that the New Testament is a model for mission. It is reaching out where there are no existing works of gospel evangelism. Steve said that every church is called to be a church planting church. Church planting ...
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