By David Nelson. Equip for Ministry will be featuring selected churches in the PCA excelling in the ministry of making kingdom disciples. The following article features First Presbyterian Church of Stanley, NC., Dan King senior pastor. The article by David Nelson, associate pastor of Christian ed...
Tag: Church Leadership
The Church’s Great Challenge
The PCA, as a biblically reformed church, has a particular perspective on the Church and the kingdom. Being reformed in doctrine requires a strong commitment to covenant theology, and covenant theology gives special attention to the rising generation in its implementation. God has instructed us t...
Does Curriculum Make a Difference?
I am responding to two related questions below that focus on curriculum, the main topic in this edition of Equip for Ministry. One is what difference does it make what curriculum we use in our church? A second question has come from pastors who basically ask, why should I get involved i...
Evaluating Your Sunday School Curriculum
By Dave Matthews. Part of the church's responsibility of equipping teachers for a ministry in the church is to provide them with the proper curriculum... A major problem in churches today is choosing a curriculum that is biblically sound and faithful to a correct theological interpretation of Scr...
The Lost Art and Practice of Family Devotions
By Brad Windsted. No one has to tell me how busy they are as parents in this cyber/new millennium age. Two income homes are now the commonly acceptable and necessary economic structure of many Christian homes. The increasingly fragmented family finds it almost impossible to set aside any time for...
Christian Education – More than Just Sunday School
It never ceases to amaze me that anywhere in the world you say "Christian Education" people automatically think of Sunday school. Is this the only education the church is engaged in? If so, we are in trouble. Let me explain.