Is Your Worship Pre-Christian Ready?
Few churches know how to offer adequate hospitality to a non-Christian visitor. Being nice, loving, warm, and friendly isn’t the same thing as being hospitable. For instance, does your church bulletin use any of the following words: Invocation Benediction Doxology Prayer Response Pastoral Prayer Hymn Offering Introit Prelude Postlude or a host of others) If […]
Is Your Church Really a Light On the Hill?
In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. Matthew 5:16 This is one of those y’all commands – a command given not to an individual, but to the church, the community, the ekklessia (Greek you=2nd person plural, that is “y’all”). […]
Thanksgiving Reclaimed
As church leaders there are a few holidays that must be observed faithfully and treated with the utmost respect they deserve. There is Christmas, the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Then there is Easter, the day we recognize Jesus’ resurrection three days after being crucified. These are momentous Christian […]
If You’ve Got to Herd Cats
You’ll Need a Big Mouse It’s been six years in the creating, but it finally made it to print. Written by church consultant, pastor, and author Bill Tenny-Brittian, Big Mouse is the adventure of Pastor Kent Clark, a not-so-super pastor who’s been called to the Springfield Community Church. It’s a great church. It’s a great […]
Ummm … Coffee!
Anyone who spies me in the morning has a pretty good idea that coffee is one of my best friends. A good cuppa is my near-constant companion from breakfast until an hour before lunch. Except when I’m a visitor at church … or at least at most churches. You see, although I’m not a coffee […]
Halloween Outreach
Many churches have taken a stand against any kind of the celebrating Halloween because the darkness the day and night may promote. “Because Halloween can be traced to distinctly pagan sources, it is reasonable that many believers would find some aspects of its celebration disturbing”. According to Focus on the Family’s founder, Dr. James Dobson, […]