This is our first full reporting period of the post-COVID era1. Last year we noted an elder at a large congregation in middle Tennessee reported their attendance was down 15-percent. It is estimated only one-in-ten churches gained in numbers during 2020-2021. North Second Street actually saw a slight increase in 2021 as we got back… Read More »
Put In Order 2022
How do you measure the success of an eldership process? Certainly, the best outcome is the ordination of a plurality of men who come to the office with the congregation at peace and little to no objection to be overcome. But what does it mean if men are selected but never installed? Sound familiar? I… Read More »
About The Number Two
Plurality; Merriam-Webster defines the word as, “the state of being plural.” That’s not much help. Dictionary.com is a little more to the point with, “a number greater than one.” So, one is not a plurality of anything but two or more is. We must have two for there to be a plurality. The number two… Read More »
A Time For Choosing, 2022
“And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.”-Acts 14:23 In January of 2021, this congregation completed an 18-month process of selecting men to be ordained as overseers in the church of Christ at North Second Street. The… Read More »
Mid-Year Report 2021
COVID finally got to my brain! I am over a month late on the mid-year report article for 2021. To quote Charlie Brown, “Aaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh!” To make things worse, we have been missing out on some remarkably encouraging numbers. Take a look and remember, we didn’t start meeting full-time until March 28th. Year … Read More »
Well, Now What?
Last Sunday was a roller coaster. The high point came when we announced the congregation meeting at North Second Street had nominated two men to be appointed as overseers for the church. David Muiznieks and Rick Patterson received overwhelming support from our flock (87 and 79-percent respectively). What a relief! After 20-years as a congregation… Read More »
May God’s Will Be Done
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”-Job 42:2 Did you marry the person you thought you would when you were 13-years old? How many of us are working the same job we had in high school? Did my favorite football team1 or basketball team win… Read More »
Put In Order
“This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you,“-Titus 1:5 We quote Matthew 7:21 quite a bit when we talk about what must be done to please God. Jesus tells us, it is not enough to call… Read More »
May God Put Us In Order
If the Lord wills, the North Second Street Church of Christ will ordain elders in our congregation by March of 2021. This article is designed to explain and remind us of the process laid out and agreed to by the men of the congregation in November of 2019. We pray that everything, “should be done… Read More »
