Category: Failure

If your pastor is doing all the work, then you're not following God's guidelines for a healthy church (image courtesy of pixabay.com)

The Devil Wants Your Pastor(s) to Do All the Work in Church: Burying Gifts and Ignoring God-Given Tasks

Posted on by Billy Reinhardt

There is a common belief within many churches today, and it is this: “The pastor (or pastors) must do all or most of the work, otherwise, what are we paying him (them) for?” This notion, however, is not from the Bible, but is from the devil and will, if continually upheld, keep many of our Read more about The Devil Wants Your Pastor(s) to Do All the Work in Church: Burying Gifts and Ignoring God-Given Tasks[…]

Will we hear the words "well done" when we come to die? (image courtesy of pixabay.com)

God Uses Young, Brief Lives: Nabeel Qureshi, The Problem of Evil, and The Sovereignty of God

Posted on by Billy Reinhardt

As I write these first few words (originally on Saturday, 9/16/17), I just heard that Nabeel Qureshi has passed away at the age of 34 with complications due originally to stage 4 stomach cancer. I first heard the news through Justin Taylor’s site here. If you want a good overview of his life and some Read more about God Uses Young, Brief Lives: Nabeel Qureshi, The Problem of Evil, and The Sovereignty of God[…]

Will we be patient in our evangelism just as the farmer is patient with his seed? (image courtesy of pixabay.com)

Patient Evangelism: God Usually Works Slow

Posted on by Billy Reinhardt

This past week we returned from a local missions conference with one of the speakers being from a country that is closed off and quite hostile to Christianity. As this lady spoke about their work and the great amount of time it takes to build relationships with others within this country, I thought to myself: Read more about Patient Evangelism: God Usually Works Slow[…]

Has innovation, in the name of "rapid church growth," gone too far in the church? (image courtesy of pixabay.com)

Innovative Church Ministry: Are there really 100 ways to “skin a cat”?

Posted on by Billy Reinhardt

I’ve seen the concept many times outside of church life when it comes to innovative techniques to get various goals accomplished in business, but I have also seen this phrase used often within the church as well, and it is this: “There are 100 ways to skin a cat!”  There are several ways that this Read more about Innovative Church Ministry: Are there really 100 ways to “skin a cat”?[…]

Let's take the long-view perspective of our lives and of our trials by seeing them through biographies of others who have traveled our path (image courtesy of pixabay.com)

The Value of Biographies for Perspective in our Lives and our Trials

Posted on by Billy Reinhardt

Whenever we are going through difficult seasons in life, God may use a variety of means by which to bring us comfort. God often brings comfort directly through His Word, and He will also often use people in our lives to console and to speak wisdom into our lives as well. One way that God Read more about The Value of Biographies for Perspective in our Lives and our Trials[…]

The Holy Spirit blows wherever and whenever He wills, therefore, the results of ministry are out of our hands (image courtesy of pixabay.com)

Part 2-New Birth: Yet Another Forgotten Verse of the Church Growth Movement-John 3:3-8

Posted on by Billy Reinhardt

You can see Part 1 of this post here  as well as a link here to my other posts on the Church Growth Movement The Church Growth Movement (CGM from here on) has forgotten many verses in the Bible, and one of them is John 3:3-8: 3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless Read more about Part 2-New Birth: Yet Another Forgotten Verse of the Church Growth Movement-John 3:3-8[…]

The Church-Growth Movement's flaw in believing that the "New Birth" can be synthetically manufactured (image courtesy of pixabay.com)

Part 1-New Birth: Yet Another Forgotten Verse of the Church Growth Movement-John 3:3-8

Posted on by Billy Reinhardt

You can find a list of some of my other blog posts on the “Church Growth Movement” here FORBES AND WALL STREET V.S. THE NEW TESTAMENT There are many within churches, parachurch organizations, and mission organizations today that believe if you “push the right buttons,” and if you “implement this or that particular program,” and Read more about Part 1-New Birth: Yet Another Forgotten Verse of the Church Growth Movement-John 3:3-8[…]

How will your public ministry end? (image courtesy of pixabay.com)

Ending Well or Ending Poorly: The Scary Public Ending of Eugene Peterson

Posted on by Billy Reinhardt

I am uncertain whether you heard the “firebomb” that blew up the evangelical world last week, but the very popular evangelical author and pastor Eugene Peterson came out to make some comments that clearly supported the LGBTQ movement, but then he later retracted his statements (the interview was done by Jonathan Merritt of the Religion Read more about Ending Well or Ending Poorly: The Scary Public Ending of Eugene Peterson[…]