January 28, 2025
Abundant Opportunities for Fellowship, Worship, and Learning
An abundance of opportunities exist for fellowship, intellectual advancement and worship that goes far beyond your normal church activities.
Articles for tag: Restoration Movement
December 31, 2024
Training Programs Continue to Take a Non-Traditional Approach to Preparing Ministry Leaders for the Local Church
In addition to traditional four-year colleges and universities, online and non-degree options are helping to fill the ministry pipeline in local churches.
December 31, 2024
A Movement of Leaders and Leadership Development
Spiritual development became the process by which leaders were developed in the early years of the Restoration Movement, as fellow sojourners would spur one another on in the search for truth.
December 30, 2024
A Raccoon, a Mayor, and a Rural Revival
The historic First Christian Church of Monticello, KY, has experienced growth and revival under the ministerial leadership of Joe Tipton.
December 18, 2024
Christian Standard News Items
A few exciting things that are happening with Christian Standard that you should know about.
October 31, 2024
Reasons To Be Grateful
Let’s honor God in this season as we give thanks for our blessings, as we celebrate our salvation, and as we take the gospel to the world.
October 31, 2024
Novel Generosity: Churches and Individuals Who Creatively Share Their Blessings with Others
Christians and churches are called by Christ to share their blessings with those around them. Giving often is pretty straight-forward. See a need and meet it. But some givers go a little further with their generosity—not perhaps in what they give, but in how they go about doing it.
October 31, 2024
Staying on Mission: How Restoration Movement Churches Are Supporting Global Ministry
Independent Christian churches and churches of Christ have a record of missionary activity and advocacy that stretches back to the earliest chapters of Restoration history. Our many contemporary missions organizations, programs, and conferences show that this commitment to making disciples around the globe is still a key characteristic of our movement.
October 30, 2024
Mission: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Forty-four years ago, as a young missionary ministering in Kenya, Doug Priest wrote an article about "Missions in the Eighties." Now he looks at the past, present, and future of missions in the Restoration Movement.
October 21, 2024
October 27 Application | End-Time Principles Christians Can Agree On
Revelation 13 is a challenging chapter, but it contains straightforward, relevant principles Christians can agree about even if they hold different eschatological views.
September 1, 2024
The Solomon Foundation Doesn’t Just Believe in this Movement, We Believe in You!
There is no doubt that we at The Solomon Foundation really believe in this movement and that we put our resources and energy to work every day to help the person in a hard and resistant urban environment, the ministry volunteer in a rural church virtually invisible to the world outside of its community, the preacher trying to figure out how to connect more effectively to the community while lifting up the name of Jesus, and the church leadership wanting to reach out to new communities through multi-site. We don’t just believe in this movement; we believe in you!
September 1, 2024
Political Engagement in the Restoration Movement: An Historical Perspective
Alexander Campbell encouraged Christians to refrain from getting too involved with governmental affairs, but he also encouraged them to use their available political means to promote Christian values in society.
September 1, 2024
Character or Results … What Makes a Good Leader?
When we lead our local churches to see our local communities as our primary mission field, it gives Christians who are breathing the toxic fumes of expressive individualism a breath of fresh air. We are summoned outside of self to love something bigger than self . . . our God and neighbor.
September 1, 2024
Concluding a Work, Leaving a Legacy: How One Christian University Chose to Finish Well
Because we are kingdom stewards of what we have, if the ministry we lead is no longer viable (or at least viable in its present form), there should be a point at which there is a tension between using these resources to continue the ministry we lead and leaving them as a legacy.
September 1, 2024
The Passing of the Baton
At the end of the race, it won’t be the name Ozark or the name Lincoln that matters—only the name of Jesus. Our prayer is that God will use a little Missouri Bible college and seminary to make his name known among the nations.
September 1, 2024
‘Preach the Word’: Four Bible Colleges Focusing on the Preaching Mission of the Restoration Movement
The Restoration Movement isn’t bound together by an organization or authority structure, it is bound together by preaching.
August 6, 2024
One Year Later: Cornerstone Christian Church’s Response to the Maui Wildfires
One year after the devastating Maui wildfires, the Cornerstone Christian Church has found a way to use the tragedy to share the love of Jesus.
JOHNSON UNIVERSITY SELLS FLORIDA CAMPUS
Johnson University sells Florida campus, formerly Florida Christian College, for $28 million.
A Listing of Restoration Movement Podcasts
Christian Standard created this listing of regularly produced podcasts loosely defined as “Restoration Movement” podcasts. The theme-driven podcasts in the top portion of this listing are produced by Christian churches and organizations. The podcasts at the bottom are individual churches’ weekly sermons/messages. . . .
July 1, 2024
Fences, Freedom, and Fellowship
In my study of our Restoration Movement heritage, it seemed leaders were more concerned with eradicating fences than erecting them. That value has been overlooked by some. . . .
