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Top Issues Church Planters Face #1

January 19, 2023 by David Cox

Summary: This article on Top Issues Church Planters Face discusses some issue found in a Christianity Today article.

In this post, I am commenting on several websites on church planting that I have seen.

Church Work’s Governing Principles

November 11, 2023January 18, 2023 by David Cox

Church Work’s Governing Principles is a review of my concept of my philosophy of the ministry reviewing how to attack a good philosophy of ministry. When I was working on my masters in educational administration, I had to take a class called “Philosophy of Education”. Essentially it was a complete “philosophy” of how to educate, and the purposes behind this philosophy. Over the years of ministry (30 some to date) I have many times “figured out how and why” to do something in church, and I have made kind of informal rules.

Governing Principles in Church Work

By Pastor-Missionary David Cox

What is a biblical New Testament Church?

January 17, 2023June 17, 2022 by David Cox

What is a biblical New Testament Church? There is a principle that says, you cannot hit a target if you don’t know what it is. Simply put, we as “church” cannot be “church” if we don’t have a firm concept of what “being the church” consists of. I read works by people who attack and are antagonistic to the traditional church (mostly negativism), and those who would transform it into something else.

Fixing a Ruined Church

November 11, 2023June 10, 2022 by David Cox

Fixing a Ruined Church is an article and suggestions on how to fix a ruined, sick church by getting back to the basics of what a church is and should be.

I read an article named, 4 Starter Ideas for the Care and Treatment of an Unhealthy Church (a good article by the way), and in it, it mentions some tips on how to “treat” the patient of an unhealthy church. From that general idea I want to expand on some of my thoughts of that post.

Why we should go to a plural eldership?

January 17, 2023October 22, 2021 by David Cox

Why we should go to a plural eldership? (for pastors)

Topic: plural eldership
by David Cox 1998

The question presented is one that can simply be answered, because the plurality model is the biblical representation of local church government. In other articles I wish to present, I will deal with specific issues and especially the biblical basis, but in this article I would like to present a general argument on the basis of some Scriptures and some common sense.

When we look at the local church, many typically have a single pastor which does the majority of the preaching, teaching, and administration of the local church. There are usually a small group of men who are called deacons who approve the financial affairs of the local church. The attitude of our typical local church is one that would be summed up in the following, “we pay the pastor to do the work of the ministry, so why should we get involved?” The exception is that of finances, but other than that and some Sunday School classes, most of the work of the ministry is laid on the shoulders of one man, the pastor.