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You and Your Local Church

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By Dr. Tim Rabon, Saturday, October 16, 2021
A Call to Be a Faithful and Involved Member of your Local Church
As we recently celebrated our 70th anniversary as a local church, I have been thinking of the role that a local church has played in my life. I am so glad that my parents taught and showed me the importance of belonging and being faithful to the local church.
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8 Considerations for Decision Making in Covid-19

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Friday, September 18, 2020
Anyone who tells you that they have local church ministry during Covid-19 figured out is either delusional or far wiser than I am. Because after thirty-four years of pastoring, I am finding this season the most challenging—by far. I have never seen anything like it. The health, political, and social challenges are real.
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Current Events
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I Believe in Christian Education

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Saturday, August 15, 2020
7 Reasons Christian Education Is Vital
My life has been influenced, informed, and molded by Christian education. As a student, I greatly benefited from Christian education. And since beginning Lancaster Baptist School in 1989, I have labored as a teacher, parent, administrator, and pastor to weave the mind of Christ and a Christian worldview throughout the educational process.
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Christian Education
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The Blessing of Assembling

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By Dr. Mike Edwards, Thursday, July 30, 2020
Let me go on record: I am not a fan of quarantine! I have Zoomed, FaceTimed, and Skyped until I have grown to detest the very words. It is just not the same hugging a television, a computer screen, or an IPhone as it is being close to a person you care very much about.
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Christian Living
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What the Apostle Paul Believed about Gospel Unity

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Monday, June 8, 2020
Thirty-four years ago this summer, the Lord brought our family to Lancaster, California. On our first Sunday night service, I preached a message from Philippians 1:27 which not only set the direction of our church for these past thirty-four years, but also became our theme verse.
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Pastoral Leadership
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4 Things You Can Do to Help Your Pastor at This Time

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By Scott Pauley, Saturday, June 6, 2020
These are unusual days for everyone and unique days to serve in a church. Over the last few weeks I have spent a great deal of time talking and praying with pastors who are doing their best, under God, to lead their churches through this crisis time. While these faithful pastors are working to help God’s people, we should also be thinking about how God’s people can help God’s pastors. Remember, we are all in this together!
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Christian Living
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Social Distancing Versus Gospel Ministry

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Friday, March 13, 2020
In recent days, we have been wisely encouraged by medical professionals to practice social distancing to help avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19.
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Pastoral Leadership
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4 Convictions that Keep You in the Ministry

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Monday, June 10, 2019
This week, Terrie and I celebrate thirty-three years of ministry at Lancaster Baptist Church with the Anniversary Sunday and host the Spiritual Leadership Conference. (And I hope you’re planning to join us!)
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Pastoral Leadership
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7 Tools to Pursue Excellence in Ministry

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Monday, February 25, 2019
One of the first books I read in full-time ministry was In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters. Although it is specifically about excellence in business, I was captivated by the realization that if the secular world would care about excellence in the workplace, how much more should we care about excellence in ministry? I have been on a pursuit ever since to have a ministry that honors God.
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Blueprint for Adult Classes

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By Tim Christoson, Saturday, January 26, 2019
The Ingredients for a Tremendous Class
The book of Acts provides us with a clear blueprint for reaching and discipling adults. If we will lead our classes to grow in health and attendance, we must:
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Adult Classes
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3 Characteristics of a Growing Church’s Culture

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Monday, December 10, 2018
6 Characteristics of a Disciple-Making Church—Part 2
In the previous blog, we noted that while it is easy to give lip service to the Great Commission as the mission of the local church, it is also easy to get distracted from it.
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Outreach & Discipleship
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Are You Neglecting Part of the Great Commission?

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Monday, December 3, 2018
6 Characteristics of a Disciple-Making Church—Part 1
he Great Commission of Christ is to share the gospel and make disciples. Sometimes I paraphrase it, “go, win, baptize, teach.”
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That All the Earth May Know

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By Dr. Don Sisk, Saturday, October 27, 2018
Is Your Sending Capacity Growing?
Even a casual reading of the Word of God will reveal to us that God desires that all the people of the earth, in every generation, know about HIM.
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Missions
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What’s behind a Name?

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Monday, September 24, 2018
In a post last week, I listed the Baptist distinctives, using the acrostic BAPTISTS, and suggested that if you believe these, you should not be ashamed of the name Baptist or of your heritage.
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Christian Living
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What’s in a Name?

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Monday, September 17, 2018
The Name “Baptist” Is Distinctive
Last week, I had the blessing of teaching a new group of adults in the CORE class at Lancaster Baptist Church. I teach this class several times each year for those who are new to our church. Often it is filled with newly-saved, first-generation Christians who have lots of great questions!
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Christian Living
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They Were the Ruin of Him

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By Dr. R. B. Ouellette, Saturday, September 1, 2018
When God’s People Use the World’s Methods Destruction Follows
It seems as if we are surrounded with appeals to do the work of God in a new and “better” way. If only we will cancel our evening services, abandon our confrontational soulwinning, throw out our standards, soften our preaching, replace godly music with sensual music, and avoid politically incorrect subjects such as abortion, homosexuality, and submission on the part of a wife to her husband, then we will begin to see our churches grow.
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4 More Ways a Pastor Serves His Church

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By Bruce Burkett, Saturday, August 25, 2018
Let Your Pastor Be Your Pastor—Part 2

This is part two of this article. Please click here to read part one.

1. The Pastor Is to Have a Faith Worthy of Following

Remember them which have the rule over you…considering the end of their conversation—Hebrew 13:7

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Making Disciples or Making Concessions

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Tuesday, August 21, 2018
We Are Doing One or the Other
Discipleship is central to Christianity. In the words of my friend, Dave Hardy, “We are either making disciples, or we are making concessions.”
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Outreach & Discipleship
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3 Ways a Pastor Serves His Church

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By Bruce Burkett, Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Let Your Pastor Be Your Pastor—Part 1
Being a pastor is a great privilege. The Bible tells us, “This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work” (1 Timothy 3:1). It is a good thing to desire to serve God as a pastor in His church. (God give us some men—young and older—who would have such a desire!) Yet, being a pastor carries with it great responsibility toward God’s people.
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Pastoral Leadership
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10 Characteristics of a Healthy Church

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Monday, July 16, 2018
10 Indicators of a Solid, Spiritually Healthy Church
When Terrie and I came to Lancaster in the summer of 1986, our goal was not to build a large church but to reach people for Christ. Over the past thirty-two years, the Lord has done more than we ever could have dreamed, and we praise Him for that. But our goal has not changed. We still want to reach people for Christ and to invest ourselves in Christ’s church.
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Pastoral Leadership
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