Paul’s Message: Jesus Christ

“if Paris Hilton can draw a following, anyone can start a church”

In all of his letters he in one way or another refers to the centrality of Christ, the cross, and the pure gospel as being the “only foundation” on which his ministry was built. We must have the same message:

“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” –I Cor 3:11


Paul was a skilled logician, and rhetoric was a highly respected cultural means of public address. Yet, we read this,


Someone just this week made the observation that if Paris Hilton can draw a following, anyone can start a church. But the church isn’t to be built following a celebrity pastor with excellent teaching that entertains. interests, and informs. It isn’t built on excellent speech, but on following Jesus at great cost by a congregation of disciple making disciples (who will make up church planting churches).