How to look after your wife

I haven't written any posts recently because it is holidays and everyone is away. Next year I will continue the series on training leaders.

But here is an interesting post on how husbands can sanctify their wives:
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Another great devotion on Christ

Monday's devotion – 1 Corinthians 1:18-22 – Only the good news of Jesus has power. We preach only Christ, and that message has power to demolish strongholds. Preach Jesus!!!

Thank you short course student!

We need to get the foundation in place – which is Christ!
And then we can look at all the other issues in the Bible and our lives, building on this strong foundation.

The cross is the foundation of everything

Recently Jiroy preached on 2 Corinthians 2:5-17, about welcoming back a repentant sinner. Paul was concerned for the man, and for the cross of Christ, and for the church of Corinth.

I really liked Jiroy's emphasis on the cross as the basis for everything else. We need to look at everything through the cross of Christ, or make the cross the basis for our thinking about everything else. The solution to every problem in the church is found in Christ.

That is the point of this blog. Jesus died and rose again. He is Lord and Saviour. We must build everything on him. The good news of Jesus must be the centre of everything we do. Christian ministry means applying the good news of Jesus to all the different issues that people face, and helping them to stand firm in Jesus and grow mature in him.

Ps Christopher on church decline

Ps Christopher made some helpful comments on the decline of the PCV.

1. We are not doing enough pastoral work. The early missionaries did a lot of catechizing and training in the faith, but we don't do these things much any more.

2. Many people responded to the Gospel for the wrong reasons. They responded because the community did, or because they wanted physical things, or for other wrong reasons. But they were not really Christian. We can even think of the decline now as a refining or pruning process. People are leaving, but they were never really part of the invisible church.

I agree with these ideas. Both points help us understand why the PCV is spiritually weak today and the road ahead. We must do more pastoral work, faithfully preaching and teaching God's Word. And we must help people truly believe in Christ. We do not only want them to come to church on Sunday. We want them truly saved, with Christ as Saviour and Lord.

Any thoughts?