For the week of April 25, 2005
DNA Accountability – Part 4
By: Tom Bandy
Churches need to move beyond discernment of DNA, to using DNA as a primary vehicle for accountability. There are five basic ways to do this. Here is the fourth:
Churches need to shape every team, cell, committee, or mission unit to embody the […]
In case you haven’t noticed, there have been a host of books lately focusing on the pastor’s character and spiritual development. Not only that, but many conferences are now featuring the importance of spiritual development of the pastor. One of the most notable books on the subject of the devotional life of the pastor […]
During this holiday season I can’t help but notice how far out of whack everything is today. Everyone is hoping for a big rush in stores to help businesses make their end of the year profit. Did you see the stores on Christmas in the news? People were shoving and hitting one another, and […]
I just started reading The Longview by Roger Parrott, and the title of the first chapter caught my attention. It says so much about why United Methodism (along with many other groups) is in deep trouble. The chapter title is “Lead as If You’ll Be There Forever.” In such a fast-changing world, one of the worst practices […]
One of the things The Effective Church has been known for is our attempts to take a peek into what the future might hold. Bill Easum was a master of the art and, as time has shown, he was right more often than he was wrong (okay, to be fair, mega churches are still […]
The threat with church hospitality at present is that it can become just another program to get people to church. Hospitality had better be grounded in a true sense of loving God’s people.
People often refrain from church these days because of what they determine to be hypocrisy. You could say that that means there […]
I’ve noticed a comparison between what is going on in Afghanistan and what happens in most dying churches. Dying churches usually have some money saved up. In fact I have helped close some churches with money in the bank. The problem is that the leaders will slowly dole out just enough money to keep […]
Creating a Multiplication Culture
There’s no question in our minds that this is one of the most important chapters in the book. The fact is, if you can’t change the culture, nothing you do is going to launch a growth culture, let alone a multiplication culture.
When it comes to changing a congregation’s culture, to be […]
I’m a simple person, so I boil books down to their absolute minimum. When I do that with this book, here’s what I come up with – The Missional Church is the one that asks a basic question –“What is God up to in our neighborhood,” rather than “How can we improve what we’re […]
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