When Prayer Becomes A Sideshow In using John’s Gospel as part of the text for this State of The Church address we indicated that John wrote to the church at Ephesus. No doubt he would have seen certain disturbing signs and used his first-hand knowledge of the life and ministry of Jesus as the…
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Making Ourselves dismissible
As we continue examining the state of the church by surveying some of the Biblical Pastoral concerns for the church let us spend some more time on the matter of irrelevance. We have argued that the large stone water jars which had been on the outside in an unused state represented the state of the…
The Best Wine
Our Biblical survey of Pastoral concerns for the church now transitions from the Old Testament to the New Testament. The state of the church still occupies our prayerful reflections. The Gospel according to John lends itself readily to this objective because the evangelist wrote with a love and passion for the early post ascension faith…
The Idle Churches
In the previous blog post we saw how John used the first sign from the Book of signs, the turning of water into wine to expose the true condition of the religion of the Jews of the day. It had become infected with idleness, inertia and irrelevance. It warrants us being detained by it for…
