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August 6, 2007 0 Comments

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

July 30, 2007 0 Comments

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

July 30, 2007 0 Comments

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

July 16, 2007 0 Comments

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

July 9, 2007 0 Comments

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,

July 2, 2007 0 Comments

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