What should church life be like? The Bible has different metaphors for how God sees the church. Here are seven of them that shape how we view the church.

Many congregations make use of children's bulletins to help bridge the generation gap in worship. Making use of pictures and quizzes, such bulletins involve the children in the service and answer some of the questions children ask about worship and general church life. This article gives some suggestions on how to use such a bulletin to enhance the participation of children in the worship service.

God's glory shines through His creation. This article draws lessons from God's small creations. Ants and bees teach the church the need to work, and to work for the benefit of the church. The best lessons on building church life can be learned from the ants of Proverbs 6.

This article is about worshipping twice on a Sunday. Preaching and its importance for church life is also discussed.

Congregations, so long the normative form of church life, are under threat. Haddon Willmer demonstrates how the threats come from social and economic forces. The situation is made worse by the internal loss of bearings in churches themselves. In particular he identifies the flight from a critical intellectual life and the problems of inculturating faith in our twenty-first century world.