Church Growth in One Sentence
I was privileged to visit Northpoint’s new Browns Bridge Campus a few months back. This is an amazing story–brand new 3,000 seat auditorium filled twice on Sunday morning. How do they do that? Part of the answer, or course, is that a whole lot of people came from the main campus at Northpoint. They live […]
Holy Smoke: Finances
Clif Christopher, Horizons. In this next seminar I will be discussing the impending crisis in financial stewardship that I believe has come and is still to get worse. At the same time, we will discuss ways that we can position ourselves to not fall victim to the gloom and doom. The primary text for our […]
Eco Outreach
It is becoming increasingly clear that if outreaches to our cities are not both caring for the people as well as aware of the environmental footprint we leave behind we are not going to make our greatest impression. It is high time that we open our peepers to become aware of the complete imprint we […]
Explode the Myths: An Idea for a Learning Center
This idea is borrowed from an old, now unidentified source. It still works well as a learning center. Create a “stick of dynamite for each myth (a toilet paper tube or rolled up piece of poster board works well when decorated in red or orange paper and given a pipe cleaner “fuse”). Tape or glue the […]
Team Based Ministry
FOUR SECRETS OF GREAT TEAM BASED LEADERSHIP By Dave Ferguson of Community Christian Church There are some things you would never say out loud; even though you know they are true. The reason you don’t say them out loud is (despite the fact they are true) they just don’t sound right. If you uttered these […]
Four Reasons for Multiple Services
In the January, 1991 issue of GROWING CHURCHES John Vaughan pointed out that most growing churches are multi-congregational churches. An estimated eighty five percent of fast growing churches are in multiple services on Sunday, some even have Saturday night services.(1) Ours is one of those churches. We have recently started our sixth and seventh weekend service. The […]