Welcome

by Scott Brown, February 24, 2006

How thankful I am to be part of the reforming influence of the NCFIC in calling the church back home to foundational biblical practices. In the following months, I will be writing articles that are a call for reformation of practices in the home and in the church. After all, our work is about one main thing: the implications of the sufficiency of Scripture in church life.

These articles will work to identify the modern problems that have come from turning away from the biblical order in the church and the home. We will also bring some practical solutions to bear that we pray will be helpful. Toward this end, we will be holding conferences across the nation, encouraging church planting efforts, producing CD’s, books, tapes, and videos to equip and encourage. We will be offering web tools to connect people and providing counsel for people with questions about their situations.

As the church has followed the world system, she has acquired practices that are harmful to her families. One example is that most churches have nearly obliterated the scriptural role of the head of the household in church life. This has paralleled what the world has done in the broader culture. Progressively, and often unwittingly, the church has eliminated the father’s role and given it to Sunday school teachers, and childcare workers. I believe that until fathers take their jobs back, there will be no reformation.

The problem is clearly observable. Look where the bulk of the energy of human resource is directed in the average church. Massive amounts of energy are plunged into things that secure short term attendance bumps by making low entry level slots for people to be involved, but neglect the daily, long term activity and energy investment that secures a future for many generations.

It is time for reformation. It is time for a return to the biblical order for the church and the home for the delivery of the message of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ to the world, for the eternal joy of all who believe, to a thousand generations.

By His grace and for His glory,
Scott Brown
Director, NCFIC