By Aaron Lemuel De La Torre, Iglesia Bautista de la Comunidad in Hidalgo, Texas, www.comunidadiglesia.com I recently came across a Barna study revealing that only one in five believers feels a personal responsibility to share their faith. That statistic...
By Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv When we first began implementing the cell system at Elim, we decided not to allow the exercise of the gifts of the Spirit within the cells. Our reasoning was simple: we feared the possibility of emotional excess or false...
By Dr. Jerry Joule, founding pastor of The Way Church in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and Reynosa, Mexico. When I was just two years old, I stopped breathing due to an illness. By God’s grace, a missionary doctor was just outside the hospital room. When my mother...
By Dr. Jerry Joule, founding pastor of The Way Church in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and Reynosa, Mexico. I used to joke that Baptists had their own trinity. They worshipped Father, Son, and Holy Bible. Please understand: I am a Baptist pastor and have been a...
By Joel Comiskey, The Spirit-filled Small Group I’ve often said the cell church structure is biblical and reproducible. I’ve taught it in dozens of countries and seen it work in various cultures. But I’ve also seen that the structure alone...
by Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv Writing to the Corinthians about gatherings in homes, Paul describes a powerful scene: “But if an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in while everyone is prophesying, they are convicted of sin and are brought under judgment by all, as...
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