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Welcome to the website
of BBM
Biblically Balanced Ministries:
Our mission is to equip Christians, families and churches to live and
minister Biblically balanced. Check out
the new information and see how BBM can help you.
Confirming the Need for Balance
by Dr. Gary Becker
A recent Wall Street
Journal has confirmed the importance of the ministry of balance
in ministry. Speaking about the megachurches, the article starts
by saying, “These churches have grown by staying away from
hard-core biblical teaching and instead have lured the curious
with slick multimedia presentations and skits, sermons with
cultural relevance of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and maybe an iced
cappuccino for the trip home.” (The Wall Street Journal – June
27, 2008, “Houses of Worship – Less Seeking, More Thirlls” by
Dale Buss)
BBM began out of a conviction that churches and pastors were in
need of balance. It became apparent that a movement in the
culture of churches was leading to an imbalance. The imbalance
led to a depreciation of the importance of sound biblical
exegesis. Emphasis was placed more on the quality of the worship
music than on the content of the message.
The challenge we have sought to bring to churches has been the
importance of balance between relating to our culture and sound
exposition of the Bible. We have emphasized that the exposition
of the scriptures should never be compromised for the name of
“worship.” Unfortunately the idea of “worship” began to be more
of a focus on expression and less about hearing form God.
Our ministry continues to remind pastors and churches of the
four simple balance points.
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article)
Are You Planning
a Missions Emphasis?
Let us Help through a Coaching Relationship
The use of the week long Missions Conference may be gone
for most churches, but there is a great need in relating
missions to our church body. Creativity in planning a missions
emphasis is essential for effectively creating an interest in
and support for missions in our culture today.
There are a number of reasons for this difficulty in creating
interest in missions:
1. Time is one of the first problems we need to face. People are
running schedules with work, youth activities, sports interest,
and other personal interests that limit time for extra church
meetings.
2. Perceptions of missions and missionaries are that they are dull
and uninteresting.
3. Pastors have not always been aware of some of the creative ways
to present missions in the church. In defense of the pastors,
they are often involved with so many areas of church
administration that missions may be forced to a back burner.
4. Financial struggles in churches have caused them to avoid
exposing the congregation to needs that may take away from
supporting the basic operation of the church.
One of our priorities is coming alongside churches to develop
their vision and stimulate interest through creative approaches
in developing missions emphasis. A first step in helping
churches in developing a creative missions emphasis is through a
coaching relationship. This relationship begins with a simple
meeting for exploration of ideas with the pastor and missions
leaders. Just give a call and we can set up an informal meeting.
Help keep the vision for missions alive!
If you are interested
contact Gary Becker as
soon as possible.
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