Tag: Love your neighbor

• Two Contents, Two Realities

  Francis Schaeffer said: “there are four things which are absolutely necessary if we as Christians are going to meet the need of our age and the overwhelming pressure we are increasingly facing.” These four things are two contents and two realities: The First Content: Sound Doctrine  The Second Content: Honest Answers to Honest Questions  The First…

  Dennis Griffith

  June 8, 2012

  Missional

  Beauty of human Relationships, Christian Spirituality, Francis Schaeffer, Gospel, Gospel-Driven, Honest Answers to Honest Questions, honesty, Humanity, Humility, Love your neighbor, Missional, Reformed Spirituality, Reformed Theology, Scripture, Sound Doctrine, Spirituality, True Spirituality, Truth, Value of man

• 100 Ways to Love Your Neighbor

  It seems as if it ought to be simple enough: “Love your neighbor.”  But experience tells me it is not as easy as it might seem.  And, if we take seriously the parables of Jesus, we learn it is not as easy as some tend to think.  When we read what Jesus holds up as…

  Dennis Griffith

  July 25, 2011

  Evangelism, Missional

  Evangelism, Good Neighbor, Jonathan Dodson, Josh Reeves, List, Love your neighbor, Missional

• Out-stretching the Outreach Dilemma

  I have been spending some time thinking about how to revamp and ignite the outreach ministry of our church.  One of the frequent dilemmas for a church that desires to become more externally focused, more missional, is the balancing of service and PR.  There is nothing inherently wrong with advertising, but sometimes a sincere outreach…

  Dennis Griffith

  May 4, 2011

  Evangelism, Gospel-Driven, Holistic Ministry, Ministry, Missional Church

  Church Marketing, Community Service, Evangelism, Externally Focused Church, John Stott, Love your neighbor, marketing the church, Missional, Missional Ministry, Outreach, Servant Evangelsim, Socail Action, Social Ministry

• Won’t You Be My Neighbor

  A group of pastors invited the mayor of their city to discuss his dream for the city, along with the issues that were hindering that dream from becoming a reality.  The mayor came with a list of pervasive issues that the pastors in this group were eager to address: at-risk kids, elderly shut-ins, dilapidated housing, and hunger. But before addressing…

  Dennis Griffith

  May 26, 2010

  Missional, Missional Church

  City Transformation, Good Neighbor, great commandment, Love your neighbor, Missional, Missional Church, Missional Ministry, Neighbor

• The Beauty of Human Relationships

  by Frances Schaeffer This is the fourth of four posts in a series titled Two Contents, Two Realities.  These posts are slightly edited excerpts of a paper delivered by Dr. Francis Schaeffer  as part of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland. ********* The second reality is the beauty of human relationships. True Christianity produces beauty as well as’…

  Dennis Griffith

  December 26, 2007

  Gospel, Missional, Spiritual Formation

  Beauty of human Relationships, Christianity, Francis Schaeffer, Gospel, Humanity, Love, Love your neighbor, Missional, Relationships, Spiritual Formation

• Love Your Neighbor

  “What do you want your church to be known for?”, I was asked.    “I want this community to know that Walnut Hill Church loves them,” I replied.   I want people to know we care about them, and that we are for them, even if they will never darken the doorway of our church.  I believe…

  Dennis Griffith

  October 10, 2007

  Gospel

  Don Waltermyer, Gospel, gospel in action, gospel-drive, Grace, great commandment, Love your neighbor, Missional, servant, servant evangelism, Washington PA, Washington PCA, Washington Presbyterian Church