'Matt Chandler' Tagged Posts

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Should Baptism Be Spontaneous?

I am still mulling this over in Niddrie. I am so slow to baptise here, largely because I fear doing it falsely and we end up with a community of people who ‘got baptised at the mission’ but are now nowhere with the Lord. we have seen so many profess faith over the years but 90% are nowhere. This is an ongoing battle. The attraction of baptising more people and…

T4G Conference 2012: Relating it to Housing Schemes (2)

Speaker: Matt Chandler Text: Revelation 21 & 22 Title: The Fulfillment of the Gospel I will say that I find Matt Chandler to be (on the outside at least) an extremely Godly, humble and passionate man for the gospel of the Lord Jesus. He oozes class. I think his appointment to Acts29 is a shrewd…

Coping With Terminal Illness

This is an extremely emotive topic and anybody who has been in ministry for a length of time will have faced this particularly painful scenario. I have dealt with several sudden deaths in Niddrie, from overdoses to accidents, young and old. It is a brutal reminder of our mortality and the preciousness of life. Families are left, often bereft, with many questions and the…

Is Church Membership Biblical?

Great post here by Matt Chandler. It is very cool these days to slate the local church, particularly amongst young, studenty types who naively think that church boils down to three of or four people meeting together to slag off local (and often very traditional congregations). The church is the bride of Christ and He gave His lifeblood for her. Many of us do well to…