Tag: word & deed

• Practitioners of Love

  Studying love is exciting, being taught the doctrines of love is enlightening, praying about love is heart moving, and seeing love modeled is motivating, but in the end, we must lovingly obey God and sacrificially serve people. We must be practitioners of love, not theorists. We must be doers of love, not talkers. We must…

  Dennis Griffith

  December 20, 2011

  Christian Life, Church

  Alexander Strauch, Christian Love, Church, Love, Love in Action, Love or Die, word & deed

• Reflecting Jesus in Christ’s Church

    If, as most Christians profess, Jesus is indeed the only Head of the Church, it seems reasonable that Christ’s Church should reflect His personality in it’s ministries and structure.  One way that Jesus is reflected in the ministry of faithful churches has been the recovery of a balanced Word & Deed holistic ministry. By balanced…

  Dennis Griffith

  March 2, 2010

  Holistic Ministry, Ministry, Missional Church

  Church Leadership, David Fairchild, Dick Kauffman, Drew Goodmanson, Harbor Presbyterian Church, Holistic Ministry, Kaleo Church, Leadership, Ministry, Ministry Leadership, Multi-Perspectivalism, Offices of Christ, Persectivalism, Tri Perspectivalsm, word & deed

• Happy Birthday, ‘Ho’!

  OK. I know. A lot of people don’t like Tony Campolo. A lot of my friends don’t like Tony Campolo. I know he’s  “too liberal”.  I know John MacArthur flatly states that Campolo “misses the central teaching of the Bible“.  I know he was once tried in ecclesaistical court for heresy.  But still, you must admit, he…

  Dennis Griffith

  January 14, 2010

  Evangelism, Grace, Holistic Ministry, Ministry

  compassion, Evangelism, Grace, Holistic Ministry, John MacArthur, mercy, Ministry of Mercy, Social Gospel, Tony Campolo, word & deed

• Gospel in Word and/or Deed

    For the past couple of days I’ve been involved in a discussion on Justin Taylor’s blog, Between Two Worlds.  The discussion was prompted when Justin posted a Tweeted quote from J.D. Greear: “Preach the Gospel; if necessary, use words” is like saying: “Tell me your phone number, if necessary use digits.” Greear’s clever and…

  Dennis Griffith

  January 12, 2010

  Evangelism, Ministry

  Evangelism, Francis of Assisi, Holistic Evangelism, Holistic Ministry, J.D. Greear, Justin Taylor, Social Gospel, word & deed