Doing Church in Tough Times
Doing Church in Tough Times: Create an Opportunity Ethos There’s no question the times are tough. The economy is in the tank. Unemployment is rising faster than soda pop bubbles. The banking industry is on the ropes. The Big Three auto makers are on their knees. And no one knows who’s going down next. Even […]
Changing the Committee Forecast for the New Year
It’s the time of year when churches across the nation will be installing their new officers, committee chairs, board members, etc. There will be a meaningful installation service (there will be a meaning-full service in your church, right?) and these committed men and women will excitedly begin their service to the church for the next year. In […]
Playing Fair When Dancing with Dinosaurs
Before you read this post, please burn into your brain that I was one of the first authors to shoot a warning shot across the bow of the institutional church by questioning its effectiveness and validity. In 1993, I wrote the book Dancing with Dinosaurs, in which I said the present form of institutional Christianity […]
Heresy Today and How to Respond
I was just getting ready to do a blog on the comparison of heresy in the first few centuries to that of today since today is so much like the 1st century, when I received a post from one of the members (Anne) of our Advanced Leadership Forum asking if our group had seen the […]
A Multi-Site Church Road Trip
Leadership Network is doing a blog tour for the new book, A Multi-Site Church Road Trip, by Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, and Warren Bird. I have been asked to participate with the bloggers. I was asked to submit a question to which the three would respond. Here is my question to Geoff, Greg, and Warren. […]
More about the Missional Church
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the growing use of the word “missional” to describe the church. I’ve seen so many definitions of the word that it makes my head spin. Still, I offer you another definition in the hopes of simplifying the issue. A missional church is a baptized community of people called […]