Three stories of good news for the church in the culture: The best way to observe Silent Wednesday
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Three churches have been in the news lately for meeting needs with tangible compassion. Today's podcast tells their stories, then we look at the decline of church membership in America, discuss the growth of churches that seek spiritual growth and cultural engagement, and close by focusing on Jesus' invitation to transformation intimacy with our Father.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.7 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.4 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:18.5 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denisonformed, and this is the daily article for Wednesday, |
| 0:22.4 | March 31st, 2021. |
| 0:24.5 | The title is, Three Stories of Good News for the Church in the Culture, the Best Way to |
| 0:29.4 | Observe Silent Wednesday. |
| 0:31.6 | When Miami Beach declared a state of emergency recently due to spring break partiers who |
| 0:36.5 | overwhelmed the city, Notre Dame |
| 0:38.3 | to Haiti Catholic Church, was providing about 1,500 meals on Friday night for people in their |
| 0:43.8 | neighborhood who might not have enough to eat. The story was so significant that it was reported |
| 0:48.6 | in the Washington Post. Meanwhile, Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma is back in the news. |
| 0:55.0 | Last December, they raised millions of dollars to help churches, charity groups, and individuals, |
| 1:00.4 | including giving one needy family a car and money to buy a house. |
| 1:04.6 | This is part of their culture code of generosity by which they set aside 10% of their income to help those in need. Now they have |
| 1:12.2 | donated more than 200 MacBook laptops to high school seniors and staff at a school in their area. |
| 1:19.4 | And a church in West Virginia has responded to the escalating drug abuse crisis of our day |
| 1:24.6 | by opening an addiction recovery house. David Stouffer, who's the lead |
| 1:29.3 | pastor of Gateway Christian Church in St. Albans, was called to serve on a grand jury a few years ago. |
| 1:35.4 | He recalled that around 48 of the 50 cases presented in just a few days were drug-related. |
| 1:41.9 | He told Christian Post, I was convicted in that courtroom. His church's |
| 1:46.5 | recovery house is one response. According to Gallup, the proportion of Americans who consider |
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