Throw Off What Hinders Your Church
I was reading an article about Alexander the Great whose troops after many victorious battles looked like they were about to be defeated. His soldiers had taken so much plunder from their previous campaigns that they had become weighted down and were losing their effectiveness in combat. Alexander commanded that all the spoils of war […]
Winning Back the West
I love to say, “If you can see the harvest, you can take the risk.” The harvest is the vast number of people who live outside of the knowledge that God loves them. The risk is turning your church upside down and in-side-out to reach them. Every day Mainline Christianity becomes more marginalized and irrelevant. It’s time we changed […]
We’re At A Crossroads
Which Way to Turn? Mainline churches are at a crossroads – either they wake up to the major trend of our time or they will continue to be irrelevant or, worse yet, go out of existence. What trend am I talking about? I’m talking about multiplication. Instead of struggling to stay afloat mainline church leaders should […]
No Summer Slump Here
For most of my life as a Chicago Cubs baseball fan I have had a problem. My team would start off every season full of hope and expectation, only to come crashing down painfully by the end of May. In years past I would say to myself,” I guess it’s just a summer slump.” Summer […]
Something Wonderful Is Happening
Something wonderful has happened in the last decade, something we haven’t ever seen happen in the U.S. and I’m not talking about Mr. Wonderful. I’m talking about something so wonderful that is makes me wish I were twenty again so I could have more of a part in it – something that I have dreamed […]
The Model Church
1 Thessalonians 1:6–8 You became imitators of us and of the Lord … And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. The Lord’s message rang out from you … your faith has become known everywhere. The Thessalonian church had, at least ostensibly, become models of a functional church. They […]