Packiam Defends the Institutional Church

Here’s an interesting post from Glenn Packiam’s blog: In Defense of the Institutional Church. Some interesting feedback since the article was posted on June 8th, so I thought some of you might like to weigh in.

Transition update

These past two Sundays have been my first experience outside the institutional church. Ever. Sure, I’ve skipped a few “services” (I’m beginning to loathe that term) in our lifetime, but otherwise we’ve been active, faithful members of a Southern Baptist church since birth. On the first Sunday, my wife and I slept a little later [...]

My Last Easter Service

Yesterday, I attended the church where I have been on staff for several years. All of the church elders were out of town, so they had asked me to lead the service. When I agreed to the date a few weeks ago, I didn’t realize it was Easter Sunday. A slight oversight on my part, [...]

Pastor, what does God really want you to do?

From my earliest childhood, I remember always thinking that God was especially pleased when young men and women “surrendered to full-time Christian service.” Since I was raised in a right-wing conservative evangelical culture, for me that meant becoming a pastor or a missionary; and no matter how much one might be well-suited to be a [...]

Why Nehemiah 8 does not support expository preaching

My good friends—many of them evangelical pastors—when asked for a biblical defense of expository preaching (aka exegetical preaching or verse-by-verse preaching), point to the example of Ezra’s public reading of the Law of Moses in Nehemiah 8:1–18. But they fail to acknowledge is:

The uniqueness of the occasion — It was a time of celebration! The [...]

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