PCA Conversations

by Josh Eby
All Christians desire to become more like Jesus.  All Christians long for our world to become more like heaven.  And all Christians struggle to figure out how to live out their faith in the midst of a changing and complex world.
On the one hand, we make the mistake of identifying Christianity with our [...]

by Sam Wheatley
We’ve been discussing the biblical foundation and missional need for a theology of place. One theological and practical response is to recover the idea of parish as part of a local church’s philosophy of ministry. What follows is an interaction with a few recent publications that provide new models and resources for parish [...]

This post will be the last in our conversation on parish ministry, at least for now. We will follow up soon, however, with a related post sharing resources and new ministry paradigms for parish ministry. To catch up on the prior discussion, read the following: Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4. The final word in [...]

We are spending a few Wednesdays in a row exploring the topic of parish—the where and who of ministry. We’d like to discuss together the importance of place to the mission of the local church. To what extent should a circumscribed geography be determinative of a local church’s calling and culture? Does a theology of [...]

When PCA Conversations began we asked the five speakers from last year’s Denominational Renewal conference to each contribute one post that related generally to their assigned topic from that conference. So far you’ve read Jeff White on Mission and Jeremy Jones on Theology. Today you’ll hear from Matt Brown on the topic of Ecclesiology. In [...]

We are spending a few Wednesdays in a row exploring the topic of parish—the where and who of ministry. We’d like to discuss together the importance of place to the mission of the local church. To what extent should a circumscribed geography be determinative of a local church’s calling and culture? Does a theology of [...]

We are spending a few Wednesdays in a row exploring the topic of parish—the where and who of ministry. We’d like to discuss together the importance of place to the mission of the local church. To what extent should a circumscribed geography be determinative of a local church’s calling and culture? Does a theology of [...]

We are going to spend the next several Wednesdays exploring the topic of parish—the where and who of ministry. We’d like to discuss together the importance of place to the mission of the local church. To what extent should a circumscribed geography be determinative of a local church’s calling and culture? Does a theology of [...]

We are Christians committed to the Presbyterian Church in America and its future. We hope to foster healthy and charitable conversation of topics that matter to the life of our denomination. C.S. Lewis once likened the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church to a long, broad hallway in a house, with the Church’s various denominations [...]