Wednesday November 20, 2024

Things May be Better Than You Think

By Dale A. Robbins

"Hi Pastor! Remember me?" I reached out to shake the visitor's hand, while performing a quick review of my memory banks, but it was no use. "I hope you'll forgive me. I just can't place you," I said. With a big smile on his face, the gentleman replied, "You haven't forgotten me already have you? I'm Martin!"

Ah yes, it began to came back to me as I placed his name with his face. Martin had been a church member at one of my former pastorates. "Why Martin... it's great to see you again!" How are things with you?" I said.

As Martin talked on, my recollection of the past grew stronger, but my enthusiasm began to diminish as I remembered that my association with him had not always been all that pleasant. If memory served me, Martin was never happy with me or the church ... Read More >>

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Do Signs and Wonders Validate Man of God?
Does Size Matter to a Church's Success?
How Believers Should Handle Disputes and Offenses
How Can I Help the Spiritual Climate of My Church?
How Can I Recognize a Genuine Man of God?
How Can I Select a Good Church?
How Come a Pastor Only Has to Work One Day?
How Did Jesus' Disciples Become Called Christians?
How Do I Decide to Change Churches?
How to Avoid Getting Hurt in a Church
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What Are Deacons?
What Are Elders, Bishops and Pastors?
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What if I'm Not Getting Fed by My Church?
What Is a Charismatic Church?
What Is a Dysfunctional Church?
What Is a Fundamentalist Christian?
What Is a Liturgical Church?
What Is a Pentecostal Church?
What Is an Ecumenical Church?
What Is an Evangelical Church?
What Is Church Government?
What Is It Like to Be a Pastor of a Church?
What is Meant by "Traditional Values?"
What Is Meant by the Church Fathers?
What Is the Church?
What Is the Mission of the Church?
What Things Contribute to Church Stability?
What's a Church"s Most Important Doctrine?
What's Difference Between a Church and a Cult?
What's Most Important About a Church?
What's Most Requirements of Church Workers?

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Why Are Churches Considered Nonprofit Orgs?
Why Are Ministers Called "Reverend?"
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Why Are Preachers After Everybody's Money?
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Why Are Some Ministers Called "Parsons?"
Why Are There Different Views About Spiritual Gifts?
Why Are There So Many Hypocrites in the Church?
Why Do Churches Baptize People?
Why Do churches Emphasize Church Growth?
Why Do Churches Have Constitution and By-laws?
Why Do Churches Have Different Ways of Worship?
Why Do Churches Hold Revivals?
Why Do Churches Practice the Lord's Supper?
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Why Do Churches Stress Authority?
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Why Do Some Churches Speak in Tongues?
Why Do Some Churches Turn Persons over to Satan?
Why Do Some Churches Wash One Another's Feet?
Why Is a Church Called a "House of Prayer?"
Why Is Christmas Controversial in Some Churches?
Why Is Easter Controversial in Some Churches?
Why Is It Hard to Find a Perfect Church?
Why Should Christians Go to Church?
Why So Many Different Churches?
Why So Many Translations of the Bible?

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