I’ve found the fourth great book during my summer reading.
Simchurch is the first book I’ve read on the virtual church that makes theological sense. Although the theology isn’t deep it’s deep enough to sway even the most die-hard skeptic of the virtual church – if they keep an open mind (something hard for many […]
I don’t know about you but I’m tired of all the crazy book titles that attach adjectives to the word “church”. I get dozens of review copies every year and lately it dawned on me that many of them the last couple of years have had “church” in the title. So I did a search […]
I think most people would say I was a good leader while pastoring. All three of my churches grew while I was there. Still, twice I needed to bring in a consultant.
Lyle Schaller was the first consultant. I had been at the church for eleven or twelve years after restarting the church and some […]
It just may be that my ranting for the past 20 years or more is finally paying off. Parts of the recent Rethink Church campaign of the UMC shows signs of a biblical understanding of the role of the church.
What I like about it are the words they use
Their focus on the Great Commission
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My reading this summer hasn’t produced a lot of excellent books, but it has produced three excellent books that are worth purchasing.
Perhaps the best book of this summer and perhaps this year is The Age of the Unthinkable, By Joshua Cooper Ramo
If you’re ready to stretch your brain and learn from a wide variety […]
I began consulting with churches part time in 1987. I’ve been a full time consultant to churches since 1990. My consulting firm, 21st Century Strategies, Inc. has been around for twenty-two years. So I’ve had time to see a lot of changes in church consulting over the years- some good and some not so […]
The world I was born into was a world of probabilities. You could predict with some certainty the direction the world was heading. Today you can’t because of probabilities our world is filled with wildcards.
What’s a wildcard? Here’s a quick list:
Terrorism
Global warming
Extreme global climate change
Nuclear war
U.S. decline as a world power
Rising of China and […]
For some reason recent articles on my blog have disappeared. I know that because several of you have emailed me asking where to find certain posts that are no longer on the blog.
We had a worm in the transferring of our servers from one location to another so we guess that is what happened.
It’s […]
Two Types of Thriving Churches Emerging
Over the past few years I’ve noticed a growing trend amoung thriving churches- they are either simple or Permission-Giving. Let me give two examples of what I am seeing a lot these days.
Bay Area Fellowship in Corpus Christi, Tx is an example of a simple church. It focuses on […]
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