Getting Church Members to Invite
The other day, I found myself in a heart-to-heart with a pastor, and his frustration was palpable. He complained, “My members just aren’t inviting their friends and neighbors to church.” It’s a common refrain, isn’t it? But here’s the twist: your members have already invited pretty much everyone they know over the years and they’ve […]
Dinosaurs to Rabbits Webinar: Chapter 02
This week’s webinar (Tuesday at 2 CDT) is covering Chapter 02: Addition or Multiplication? There’s a lot of confusion by a number of church leaders on the difference between being a Addition Church and a Multiplying Church … besides the obvious spelling difference! In this session, the Dynamic Duo will talk about those differences and why […]
Back To School
What is your favorite time of year? I’m not necessarily talking about climate like Spring or Summer but rather activities that are going on. As a pastor, certainly Christmas and Easter were always at the top of my list because of their significance as the birth, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. But […]
Confession of Two Mainline Church Geeks
We’ve Got a Confession to Make. We’ve been mainline Christians most of our lives. We choose the mainline because of its theology. But over time the mainline Church has fallen into a free fall decline. And that pains us. We hate to see once great institutions dying. So we’re not going to just sit back […]
Dinosaurs to Rabbits: Chapter 5 – Introduction
In this chapter, we take a look at the principles that will turn a flagging mainline church into a multiplication movement. To be fair, this isn’t a specific recommendation list (“Start three small groups of twelve people each and study thus-and-thus in session one, this-and-that in session two” etc.). You will actually have to contextualize […]
Dinosaurs to Rabbits: Chapter 03 – Introduction
The whole point of our Dinosaurs to Rabbits book is to help spur our colleagues in the Mainline Church to get serious about transforming the church into a multiplication monster (a good kind of monster!). But the heart of the matter is that in our experience, the Mainline Church has lost its heart for making disciples … […]