This morning, we met with the family of Grace Baptist Church in Merrimack. Above is a photo of their auditorium from the platform. Of course, the church is not the space they meet in, but I am posting it because compared to our current space, it looks positively HUGE. It was a great morning of… Read More »
The expectations for the potential merger between Heritage Baptist Church and Grace Baptist Church are high on both sides. In my experience, people often hope for the best but expect the worst. It is a self-defense mechanism built into the human brain. We want things to work out, but we often do not believe they… Read More »
This is the Fairchild A-10 “Warthog.” Designed in 1972, it remains in service with the United States Air Force. It has one job, and one job only – to utterly destroy anything threatening United States forces on the battlefield. The Warthog is a battlefield ordinance delivery system. It can loiter over the battlefield for hours… Read More »
We are not a business. This is a hard thing for some people to understand when it comes to the church. Unlike most non-profit organizations, we do not operate on business principles. As hard as published and often highly respected people try to convince you otherwise, businesses exist to pay the salaries of the employees… Read More »
How do you go about unifying two congregations into one? The intensely individualistic local church idea has to be rethought and possibly even rejected in order for it to happen. This product of modernism has bred distrust and disunity in the Church, and it is the biggest obstacle that has to be overcome. Consider Jesus’… Read More »
Why do people give up on the church so easily? During the lead up to this merger process, I had a number of supportive friends in the ministry who were praying for God to do something awesome between Heritage and Grace. (Mad props to Larry, Rob, Darin, Doug and my dad!) But there were some… Read More »
Yesterday, both Heritage Baptist Church and Grace Baptist Church announced plans to merge the congregations into one. To say this is an awesome movement of God would be an understatement, and we are all eagerly anticipating what God is going to do through the new congregation. (Of course, this is far from a done deal… Read More »
