Weekend Edition - January 20, 2017

Rural churches, same-sex marriage, ICYMI, and church signs

How Can Members of Rural Churches Engage Culture? – Jay Sanders

What’s Really Going On with Evangelicals and Same-Sex Marriage – Trevin Wax

The Winnowing of Christianity – Rod Dreher

The Grace of Church Discipline – Mark Galli

Previously on The Exchange

Retraining Our Minds on the Things of Christ: Thoughts as We Draw Closer to Inauguration Day
Four Questions to Ask Ourselves as We Adjust to a New Political Reality

November 8th Is Long Gone, So Where do Christians Find Themselves?
God doesn’t love countries. He loves people.

Repealing Obamacare without a Replacement: How It May Hurt Small Church Pastors and Church Planters Near You
ACA repeal/replace has a lot of implications.

Rebuilding Our Witness
A Christian worldview embraces two things: the Great Commandment and the Great Commission.
1. Why It's Time to Take a Second Look at Our Christian Worldview in Light of Our New Political Climate
2. Developing an Understanding of the Connection of Love & Evangelism in Light of Our New Political Climate

Towards Missional Effectiveness
1. An Introduction
2. The Message of God’s Mission
3. The Movements of God’s Mission
4. The Mark of Missional Community
5. The Mark of Sentness
6. The Mark of Multiplication
7. Analogizing and Applying Missional Effectiveness

Church Signs

but fist bumps are preferred by germaphobes 4 to 1

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Thanks to friends of the blog, including Mitch and Todd, for this week’s church signs. As always, you can tweet your church signs to @EdStetzer.

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