Faith Column:
For God’s Sake: what is a church?
I did the “seminary thing” backward, serving in full time ministry at one church for 12 years – 8 as an ordained pastor – with no formal Bible education; then I went to seminary. Colleagues insisted that I would have an advantage over my classmates who would have just graduated from Bible college. After a few classes, I understood. What the fresh Bible college grads knew was yet untested theory. What I knew came from personal study, from experience, and from making a lot of mistakes.
Two couples from Crestview recently returned from a mission trip in Uganda.
Cliff and Connie Morgan along with Joe and Connie O’Neill spent two weeks in the east African nation helping Breaking Ground Missions share the good news of Christ. The Morgans attend Live Oak Baptist Church and the O’Neills are members at Crosspoint North.