Senior minister Rick Evans applies lessons from the innovation life cycle as he leads Cross Creek Christian Church beyond established traditions toward new ministry methods, community outreach, small groups, and future growth.
April 24, 2012
Brian Jobe challenges the divide between missional and attractional church models, arguing that effective churches can invite people in, build believers up, and send them out to serve.
Restoration Movement colleges describe how changing student demographics are shaping biblical instruction, recruitment, institutional identity, and their relationships with students from a variety of church backgrounds.
December 29, 2011
Jim Tune reflects on the Restoration Movement as a spiritual family and calls Christians to embrace its biblical heritage without sectarianism, theological compromise, or an inferiority complex.
August 11, 2010
Terry O’Casey challenges churches to move beyond narrow claims about being “New Testament” and recover a fuller biblical vision of discipleship, worship, baptism, leadership, discipline, and unity.
June 13, 2010
Readers respond to LeRoy Lawson and Dick Alexander on the future of the Restoration Movement, weighing unity, Scripture, preaching, restoration, church identity, and New Testament Christianity.
February 14, 2010
Rob Kastens reflects on The Millennial Harbinger, early Restoration Movement dialogue, and the need for thoughtful Christian discussion on important issues without dividing over nonessentials.
September 7, 2008
Jim Tune urges Restoration Movement church planters to recover historical memory, doctrinal clarity, and family loyalty while pursuing unity and mission with grace.
February 13, 2008
Mark A. Taylor reflects on why the North American Christian Convention remains worth engaging, pointing to Cam Huxford’s perspective on growth, mission, change, and the shared essentials celebrated at the NACC.
March 29, 2006
As CHRISTIAN STANDARD marks its 140th anniversary, Mark A. Taylor reflects on the need for more than annual reunions to keep a far-flung Christian family connected—and why the mission remains unchanged.
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