Medical debt ministries, church growth
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A nurse’s view on medical debt ministries
Thank you for this article: “Growing medical debt and ministries helping to alleviate it.”
I work as a psych registered nurse and am always frustrated with health care being run on the business model, so it is very refreshing to read something regarding health care that is truly helpful to patients.
Coleen Lunsford
Discipleship is the missing link in church growth
Thank you so much for MinistryWatch, which I read almost daily.
In your opinion piece re: growth of Christianity, I think that one of the reasons Christianity is not growing is that there’s not enough of us seeking and saving the lost. Also, once new believers are saved, many are not being discipled. (Of course, a new believer may not participate in a discipleship course due to lack of interest, inconvenience, work, etc.).
The Old Order Mennonites’ growth via reproduction is commendable and needed more broadly, but it’s their dedication to making disciples that is the real key.
Their isolation from media really helps with keeping their children central in their lives as well as shielded from worldly influences.
In short, their lifestyle maximizes the potential that their offspring will not stray from the faith in adulthood.
For those of us Christians who live much differently, we must do a better job of both teaching our own children and grandchildren as well as seeking and saving the lost.
Linda Middlekauff
Roseburg, Oregon
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