My One and Only Marathon
The Christian life is like a marathon. Both are long journeys that require discipline, endurance, and focusing on a goal. To run well, we must remove distractions that weigh us down.
How do we gauge what exactly happened in our churches during 2020 and what is the best course of action as we endeavor to resume face-to-face community during this new year? A good first step is to share your church’s experience with us via Christian Standard’s annual survey of Christian churches and churches of Christ.
“Capturing the stories and statistics from 2020 is vital for us to gauge the true impact of the pandemic on our churches and establish baselines to measure future growth and changes,” said Kent Fillinger, who has been conducting our annual survey for more than a dozen years. “This year’s survey has been revised to better reflect the uniqueness of church ministry in 2020. So your participation this year is more important than ever.”
Churches of all sizes are encouraged to participate. Data will be shared online and in a print issue of the magazine. As an added bonus, participating church leaders will be emailed the survey’s results one month before the print issue is published.
Please click here to participate. We will be collecting data through Jan. 25.
The Christian life is like a marathon. Both are long journeys that require discipline, endurance, and focusing on a goal. To run well, we must remove distractions that weigh us down.
The public failure of famous Christians doesn’t prove that God’s power isn’t real. Instead, it reveals to us where we should and shouldn’t expect to find the most remarkable displays of God’s power.
We can be flexible about many things, but in Scripture God has given us bedrock, unbending truths that don’t change no matter how much time passes or culture shifts.
The public may have lost confidence in higher education more generally, yet I believe we may be entering another golden era in Christian higher education.
Someday we will lay down our WOMBATs and our treasured accomplishments. What will matter most then? Clinging to Christ and the cross.
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