Church covenants are an important tool for promoting regenerate church membership and healthy churches. Church membership covenants are literally as old as the early church and are common practice throughout Baptist history. Any conversation regarding church membership covenants prompts several questions: What is a church covenant? Are church covenants biblical? Are church membership covenants common practice among Baptist churches? This post seeks to answer these three questions. A church covenant is simply a promise among the church members regarding how they will conduct themselves in private, in the life of the church, and in their public actions in the community.…
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One of the most powerful lessons I’ve learned in leadership involves standing in a chow line with other officers waiting for our enlisted soldiers to get their food. The reason we stood in line rather than going ahead of our soldiers directly related to the 3 M’s of leadership taught to us in our officer basic courses. Our cadre taught us to lead with these three priorities: my mission, my men, myself. If you think about it, these 3 M’s apply to leading as a Christ follower as well. Whatever your role in the Kingdom, applying the 3 M’s to…