by joelcomiskey | Apr 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
About seven years ago, I noticed a trend sweeping through the cell church world that deemphasized intergenerational/ family cells while promoting only gender specific cells (e.g., men, women, youth, children). The source of this trend came from the International...
by joelcomiskey | Apr 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
by Joel Comiskey One of the saddest things about Western culture is the breakdown between the personal (e.g., marriage, family) and public lives of people. It is acceptable to say, “I don’t care what he or she does in private. That’s none of my...
by joelcomiskey | Apr 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
The Bible was written to people who naturally gravitated toward community. Jesus and all the New Testament writers would not have understood modern individualism. For them, the individual was always a part of a larger social world and this social world was primary. To...
by joelcomiskey | Apr 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
by Steve Cordle There’s an old saying that when you marry a woman, you also marry her family. When we become followers of Jesus, we also get a family in the deal: the family of God! All those who have God as their heavenly father are now your brothers and...
by joelcomiskey | Apr 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
I believe that “family” is the principal image of the church in Scripture. Paul says in 1 Timothy 3:15, “If I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the...
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