Competitive behavior within a church can be extremely obvious. Members of a church could be observed jockeying for positions of power within the …
This Subtle Competitive Behavior Can Negatively Affect Your ChurchRead More
Category: Godly Relationships by Michael Fleming
Competitive behavior within a church can be extremely obvious. Members of a church could be observed jockeying for positions of power within the …
This Subtle Competitive Behavior Can Negatively Affect Your ChurchRead More
Category: Godly Relationships Tags: giving and receiving, God's image, God's nature, money by Michael Fleming
Just like with anything else when it comes to relationships, we can look to God. If you look carefully, you will see that the members of the …
What Happens When A Church Treats Possessions Like God DoesRead More
Category: Godly Relationships Tags: christian community, fellowship, individualism by Michael Fleming
When you think about the word "fellowship," what do you think of? Potlucks? Game nights? Small groups? That was my concept of …
What Is Fellowship In A Healthy Christian Community?Read More
Category: Godly Relationships Tags: christian community, submission by Michael Fleming
One of the main images used throughout the Bible to communicate what a church is to us is a house. It's understood that attempting to build a …
The #1 Sign A Church Is Built On The Wrong FoundationRead More
Category: Godly Relationships Tags: christian community, God's purpose, identity, unity by Michael Fleming
If you're a Christian, you already know that you needed to be made alive again by Christ. You also know that happened because He came to live …
The Hardest Challenge Every Church Is Presented WithRead More
Category: Godly Relationships Tags: body of christ, christian community, divine life, eternal life, God's purpose by Michael Fleming
There are many biblical images taken from the world around us that show and remind us how the physical realm expresses faint images of spiritual …
Why Jesus Didn’t Stay In His First Individual Human BodyRead More
Category: Godly Relationships Tags: God's image, God's purpose, identity, the bible by Michael Fleming
I think we can all agree the Bible is a big, complex, and quite honestly, confusing collection of writings. It's also what Christians all over …
Old Testament vs New Testament: What They’re All AboutRead More
Category: Godly Relationships Tags: christian community, identity, responsibility, submission, unity by Michael Fleming
We have an identity crisis on our hands. It's been my observation that Christians (including myself) mostly do not understand what it means to …
Category: Godly Relationships Tags: christian community, individualism by Michael Fleming
When something is given the position of being the center of a space or environment, it's thought to be given the most importance. In the Garden …
Category: Godly Relationships Tags: christian community, divine life, God's purpose, unity by Michael Fleming
The Tree of Life was always part of the creation pre-Fall stories and teachings I would hear in my earlier Christian experience, but it's meaning was …