According to the New Testament, the church is primarily a body of people who profess and give evidence that they have been saved by God's grace alone, for His glory alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

Our culture is becoming more hostile to the gospel. This trend may be more established in Australia than in the USA, but it's now certainly the case that the postmodern mindset is dominant, particularly in the media. Therefore, when we start speaking in terms of certainties, we sound scary to other people.

We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.

Keep going until you get good counsel that is persuasive for you that you should go elsewhere.

We do live best in this world when we keep the next in mind.

The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.

If we feel that our ministry has come to an end in one place, then it seems reasonable to move on.