Church.

Go to church!
Churches, “the Church,” and God’s kingdom.
The church is people.
The Holy Spirit’s temple: Multiple Christians.*
“It counts as church, right?”
When a church holds firm. Or doesn’t.*
Why are there so many churches?
Don’t wanna go?
Really don’t wanna go to church.
Do you have friends in your church?
“Church is SO BORING.”
Why leave your church?
Church-shopping. ’Cause sometimes you need a new church.
Finding the pony.
Church leadership.
Who runs the church?
Do you trust your church’s leadership?
What does your church believe?—and no, I don’t mean the pastors.
The fivefold ministry. Or is it fourfold? Sevenfold?
Apostles: Those whom Jesus sends out to do his work.
Bishops: The head leaders in a church.
Deacons: Those who serve the church.
Elders: The grownups in the church.
Presbyters: The grownups who run a church.
Every Christian is a priest.*
Teachers: Wanna teach? Get ready for criticism.*
Christian leadership and age discrimination.
Church services and practices.
The Didache: How’d the earliest Christians behave?
Three focal points of church services.
Liturgy: A formula for worship.
The sermon.
Sleep-deprived Sunday morning services.
Do we perform sacraments or ordinances?*
Baptism: Get saved, get wet.*
Sheep-stealing: “Hey, those were our sheep!”
Women and covering up. Or, frequently, not.*
Take notes.
Excommunication: Getting kicked out of church.
Churches and money.
How do we fund our churches?
On not giving to certain churches.
Simony: Christians who wanna make a buck off you.
Ministries and priorities.
Where your church meets, and where the needy are.
Get into a bible study.*
Churches gone wrong.
Cults: When churches go very, very wrong.*
Why I went to an all-white church.