The Expanding Web: Don’t Let Your Church Miss Out
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to work with advising several churches on their marketing strategies. These churches ranged from quite small to rather large – but they all had one thing in common: they were investing their bulk of their marketing dollars in mediums that brought them exactly zero results. Take […]
The Missional Church – The Comet That Killed the Dinosaurs, or a Knight in Shining Armor?
The 21st Century Strategies Advanced Leadership Forum recently posted this video. Take a moment to watch it below. It sounds so simple. But the question is, as always, “How?” How do you get a church that’s mired in institutionalism, ordained clergy, invitational evangelism, and hobby-based Christianity, to suddenly head out the doors of the church building […]
The Fifth Core Spiritual Habit: Personal Faith Sharing
The fifth core spiritual habit shifts the focus from ourselves and the church, and puts it where it ultimately belongs – on others. Jesus’ last commandment was to make disciples and to be a witness to what we’ve experienced in Jesus Christ (as opposed to what we’ve experienced in the church). In general, the church […]
The Fourth Core Spiritual Habit: Kindnesses Done in Jesus’ Name
With the fourth core spiritual habit, we’ve reached a significant shift. Up until now the spiritual habits have focused either on our relationship with God or our relationship with the church. In other words, the first three core spiritual habits are inward focused. The fourth habit, though, takes Jesus’ command to love our neighbors seriously. […]
I Have a Problem
The following video was sent to me by a friend. It’s an attempt to explain the missional church in two minutes and it does a good job explaining the church, missional or not. http://jrwoodward.net/2010/03/the-missional-church-simple/ However, I have a problem with all the words being battered around today to describe the church – organic, emergent, missional, incarnational […]
The Third Core Spiritual Habit: Intentionally Encouraging Other Christians
I’m a big advocate of “one-anothering”, perhaps because it was practiced so effectively in the early church. One-anothering is how Christians are called (and expected) to treat each another – at least from a New Testament perspective. In the Gospels, Jesus gave us five love directives: (1) love God; (2) love our neighbors; (3) love […]