By: Jeff Patton If you are going to plant a church, here is my sense of it in 2007. 1. Find your heart burst, what you just can’t live without doing—life is too
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By: Jeff Patton If you are going to plant a church, here is my sense of it in 2007. 1. Find your heart burst, what you just can’t live without doing—life is too
In Modernity humans were the great observers. What we saw and how we interpreted it became fiat law – even if it was wrong. The world was flat; the world was round. The
By: Jeff Patton I just spent a weekend with a Church discovering this congregation’s purpose. To accomplish this we spent the weekend studying Scripture and coming to term with the underlying principles that ought
During my time (Bill Easum) as a consultant I have been amazed at how often I find declining churches doing ministries that have little to do with their future. Some of these ministries
Many new voices are on the horizon claiming to be the wave of the future. That’s both exciting and a bit scary. Let me mention a few of the leading contenders – The Incarnational Movement,
I hear about it all too often. Some pastor shares his/her frustration because they can’t rally the congregation to get serious about evangelism. Or follow-up. Or missions within the community. The list goes