THE BLOG
Topic
- Anxiety 2
- Beauty 1
- Bible 7
- Blessings 1
- Body of Christ 1
- Burden 1
- CEO 1
- Christian Living 192
- Christlikeness 6
- Christmas 14
- Commandments 1
- Community 2
- Conflict 1
- Cults 1
- Culture 1
- DDM 1
- Death 2
- Discipleship 5
- Emotions 6
- Eternity 2
- Evangelism 7
- Faith 2
- Forgive 4
- Freedom 1
- Fusion 1
- Gambling 1
- Gather 2
- God 2
- Gospel 3
- Gratitude 2
- Hebrews 11 1
- Holiness 1
- Holy Spirit 1
- Homosexuality 1
- Humility 1
- Israel 2
- Jesus 9
- Joy 2
- King of Glory 1
- Lying 1
- Missions 3
- Outreach 1
- Pastor Jeff 1
- Perspective 2
- Prayer 8
- Psalm 119 3
- Reading 1
- Salvation 13
- Sanctification 1
- Satan 1
Gathering Matters
I recently (March 12) ran across a very interesting social media post on X by Ryan Burge. Dr. Burge is a former pastor, Professor of Practice at Washington University in St. Louis, and is a leading data analyst on religion and politics in America. He regularly takes the pulse of the church in areas like church growth and decline, the rise of “nones,” faith and voting, among other topics and writes for outlets like The New York Times, Politico and The Wall Street Journal along with his popular Substack newsletter on Graphs about Religion.
Stay Connected
God has made us relational beings and we find fulfillment in all the special human connections He has blessed us to experience: spouse, children, siblings, parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, friends, workmates, schoolmates, teammates, neighbors, etc.
High on that list (as they should be) are those we will spend eternity with. When God formed His church, He placed you and me into a family of brothers and sisters in Christ called “God’s household” (Eph. 2:19). In fact, everything about the church revolves around our common connection in Christ.