Temptations eMerging Missional Churches Face

This is Part 3 of a five-part posting on notes taken from Rick Richardson‘s talks at the annual Pastor’s Family Camp that we attend at Inter Varsity’s Cedar Campus in Cedarville, Michigan. Rick heads up Wheaton College’s Masters in Evangelism and Leadership and is a leading expert on various missional movements in the United States. [...]

Would you love God even if hell were not real?

John Calvin says, “Yes.” “Besides, [the pious mind] restrains itself from sinning, not out of dread of punishment alone; but, because it loves and reveres God as Father, it worships and adores him as Lord.  Even if there were no hell, it would still shudder at offending him alone.” (Institutes, I.II.2.) One motivation for obedience [...]