Essentials for Breaking Worship Barriers: Part One
Over the next few days, I will be blogging on the essentials to breaking the following worship barriers – 200, 500, 1000, and 1500 people in worship. Today I will begin by listing the essentials for breaking 200. Breaking the 200 in Worship Barrier. A full-time worship leader who functions also as a pastor to those […]
Network TV and Mainline Churches
Mainline churches could take a lesson from what has been and is happening to network TV. Remember when there were only three TV networks? ABC, CBS, and NBC. They had a monopoly on the television market. Sound familiar, mainline church? Up until the 1960s, mainline denominations had as close to a monopoly on the market […]
Big Worship Mistakes
I go to a lot of churches and see a lot of different worship services, both contemporary and traditional. I’m constantly amazed at how many of these services seldom consider the presence of non-believers in the audience. Let me give you some examples. I was in a church the other day that said it was […]
Antiques Roadshow in the Pulpit
I’ve been saying this for at least five years and now it appears I’ve been onto something. The day of the sermon as we know it is dead. Or at least, if you want to bother teaching and reaching the under-fifty crowd, it needs to be dead. “A study by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Carl Wieman […]
The One Thing to Do If Your Church Is Declining
If your church is not growing, there is one thing you must do to get it growing. You must ask yourself this question every time you are about to something or spend money – “If I do this today will it result in more people in worship tomorrow? If not, I better have a good […]
The Future is Coming True
I was just interviewed by a young man who was doing research on multi-site churches for his seminary degree. He was quite thorough and seemed to have covered the waterfront in his reading on the subject. What got my attention were two insights I was not aware of. The first insight was that I was the second […]