by Chip Brogden | Jan 14 | Ekklesia, Fellowship & Church, Featured | 16 Comments

Without a purpose – and without leadership to keep people aligned to that purpose – home fellowships are as spiritually unsatisfying as the institutional church services they aspire to break free from.

by Chip Brogden | Jun 9 | Christ & The Kingdom of God, Featured | 10 Comments

Christ is revealed or hidden from men as He so desires. So many professed disciples of the Lord Jesus fail to recognize Him. The Lord tells them to go to Galilee, but they go to Emmaus. Many people sitting in church would not discern the Lord Jesus if He walked up the aisle and sat down on the altar.

by Chip Brogden | May 25 | Christ & The Kingdom of God, Featured | 16 Comments

In my written and spoken messages I make frequent reference to the preeminence of Christ. Just what do we mean by Christ having the preeminence? What do we mean by giving Christ the preeminence in all things?

by Chip Brogden | Oct 14 | Discipleship & Spiritual Growth, Featured | 5 Comments

The Ekklesia enjoys spiritual oneness with Jesus, and so it grows spiritually (and may I say it grows spontaneously) without effort, and is fruitful as it continues to abide in that spiritual oneness that already exists in Christ.

by Chip Brogden | Aug 12 | Ekklesia, Fellowship & Church, Featured | 46 Comments

The turning point in my life came in 1995. At that time I was a 24 year-old burned out pastor of a church that had just closed. I was a little angry, a little frustrated, and a little depressed. As I was half-reading and half-praying, I came across a passage that I had seen hundreds of times before…

by Chip Brogden | Feb 4 | Ekklesia, Fellowship & Church, Featured | 40 Comments

Many things compete for our time, attention, affection, energy, and money. But there is only one Lord Jesus. Just as some people cannot see the forest for the trees, I believe most sinners cannot see Jesus for the Christians. And I believe most Christians cannot see Jesus for the “church”.

by Chip Brogden | Jun 2 | Ekklesia, Fellowship & Church, Featured | 1 Comment

Relationship views everything in terms of a "person." Religion views everything in terms of "place" or "thing." For example, people say, "I miss corporate worship." They are basically saying that they see worship as a "place," something to attend, a "thing" to be...

by Chip Brogden | May 19 | Ekklesia, Fellowship & Church, Featured | 6 Comments

Archippus had received a ministry from the Lord, and he had not, as of yet, fulfilled it. Archippus knew it, and Paul knew it, and now everyone in Colossae knew it. He was called to something, and had received something from the Lord, but it was dormant, stagnant, inert, still waiting to be put to use.