Friday, 10 May 2024

J D Greear

J.D. Greear | Pastor, Author, Theologian

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Plumb Line #4: People Are the Mission

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This guest post is brought to you by Danny Franks, our Connections Pastor. Danny oversees guest services at the Summit, and his ministry at our church embodies the plumb line, “People are the mission.”

He heard the music as he crested the hill.

It had been an exhausting day in the field, just like every day since the incident. His workload had doubled and the weight of the family’s farm fell squarely on his shoulders. His father was not much help; he spent most days staring at the horizon, mor..

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No army general worth his salt enters a battle without a plan. He knows his strengths, his weaknesses, his tactics, his contingencies. Most of all, for his plan to be successful, he’s got to know his enemy. If he doesn’t, even his best intentions won’t keep him from being quickly destroyed.

When it comes to battling temptation in our lives, many of us assume that good intentions are sufficient. We really do want to overcome temptation. But then Satan comes after us, and before we know it, we’re..

Should Churches Be Attractional or Missional? Yes.

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On October 18 and 19, right here at The Summit Church, we’re hosting a conference called “Centered and Sent.” The idea is that the more centered we are in the Word of God, the more sent we become as the people of God. Centered and Sent is going to focus on how the church can stay radically distinct and still be culturally relevant. As our society grows increasingly post-Christian—and often anti-Christian—we’ll need this more than ever.

This conference is going to be phenomenal. We’re going to h..

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It was a day everyone in Israel would talk about for centuries to come. Solomon had built God’s temple, and during their very first worship service, God’s presence had come so near that the priests themselves couldn’t even set foot in God’s house.

What do you think you would have done? If you saw God face to face, in all his majesty, how would you respond? I find it pretty informative what Solomon did: he prayed.

Solomon’s prayer (1 Kings 8) is chock full of wisdom, but there’s one point I thi..

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Every good story must eventually come to an end. But when we look at certain books in the Bible, we may be surprised at how many end so terribly. The book of Judges is like that: it depicts one of the darkest moments in Israel’s checkered history, filled with truly gruesome, disturbing stories. And it all spirals downward, so that the end is worse than the beginning. By the last chapters of Judges, one horror follows another, until it seems like there is nothing redemptive at all. It looks like ..

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“Dear Little Flock,
You’re all wandering away from me, like sheep in an open field.
You have always been running away from me.
And now you’re lost. You can’t find your way back.”
-The Jesus Storybook Bible, Sally Lloyd-Jones

You’ve been running away, and now you’re lost. That’s the substance of the Bible’s message to us. From the Garden of Eden to today, each of us has been running. As the prophet Isaiah puts it, we’re like sheep, each of us thinking we know the best way and choosing our own pa..

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This weekend, at the Summit, I’m dusting off an old resource and rolling it back out. It’s a little prayer I pray, almost every day, to fortify my mind in the gospel. I call it the gospel prayer.

This isn’t a magical prayer, and it’s certainly not something I claim to have invented. It came about a few years ago as I began to see how central the gospel is to all of Scripture and all of the Christian life. This was my way of applying the gospel to my daily life. As we often say around the Summit..

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Articles of the Week

Where Did the Footprints Poem Come from? Justin Taylor. You’ve probably seen it a hundred times—framed in glass, embroidered on a pillow, etched in a tiny keychain. It’s the famous “Footprints” story about Jesus carrying us in our times of difficulty. This story is easy to poke fun at, but as Taylor points out, it’s not necessarily another piece of “evangelical kitsch.” And you may be surpris..

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Back in 2007, I sat in a conference filled with ministry leaders, listening to a prominent pastor share some sobering statistics:

In the U.S., 1500 pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout, or contention in their churches.
50% of pastors’ marriages will end in divorce.
80% of pastors feel unqualified and discouraged in their role.
50% of pastors are so discouraged that they would leave the ministry if they could…but they have no other way of making a living…

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We first ran this post in September of 2012, shortly after a weekend service with on-the-spot baptisms.

A few times a year we issue an invitation for hearers to be baptized on the spot. The gospel is preached, an invitation is given, and people come, Acts 2 style. We have each baptismal candidate meet with a counselor trained to ask a number of diagnostic questions to ascertain whether the candidate actually understands the gospel and embraces the Lordship of Christ. We end up turning a conside..

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