For the week of June 20, 2005
What Goes Around Comes Around
By: Tom Bandy
Countless rural churches provide refreshment booths at county fairs, fall festivals, and innumerable community events. They have pie booths, ice cream booths, turkey dinner booths, craft booths, and entertainment booths. The problem is, all these booths charge money for something. Churches are […]
Letās face it, Fatherās Day is the Rodney Dangerfield of holidays. Itās the, āI get-no-respectā little brother to Motherās Day. Fatherās Day will probably never achieve the popularity or social significance of Motherās Day but as church we can celebrate the men who are called to be the Spiritual leaders of their homes.
Here are […]
When I came across an oldĀ Barna Report that suggestedĀ that the smaller the church is, the fewer Christians there are, I suppose I wasnāt surprised, but Iād be lying if I didnāt admit to being dismayed. Although Iāve had a lot of experience with small membership churches as a consultant/coach, Iād always secretly hoped there […]
Learning Occurs in Community
The first is the pioneering work of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire.Ā Working among the poorest of the poor in Brazil, Freire developed the practice and theory of Critical Education.Ā He demonstrated that people who had never learned to read could quickly develop skills of literacy and complex reasoning if those skills […]
When most people hear the word āmissionaryā they think of someone going off to a foreign country. That used to the case. But no more. Today, in the U.S.,Ā we are called to be āback yard missionariesā to our networks.
Today, only 30 percent of the missionaries being sent out in the world are from the […]
One of the main reasons many effective churches stop growing is they so thoroughly take their new converts out of their social environments that over two or three years they lose all contacts with their pagan friends. Before becoming a Christian most people have many non-Christian friends with whom they spend most of their […]
My friend Bil Cornelius, pastor of Bay Area Fellowship in Corpus Christi, has a new book out, I Dare You to Change!Ā I haven’t read it yet, but IĀ will soon and I’ll let you know the verdict. But knowing him, I have a feeling it will be really good.
Bill Easum
www.churchconsultations.com
www.billeasum.com
easum@aol.com
I saw a post on Facebook this week that reminded me of a very practical church growth principle. The image said, āThe best gift you can give your Mother for Motherās Day is to sit with her in church.ā
Behind only Christmas and Easter, Motherās Day is the third highest church attendance day each year. […]
I saw a post on Facebook that reminded me of a very practical church growth principle. The image said, āThe best gift you can give your mother for Motherās Day is to sit with her in church.” Behind only Christmas and Easter, Motherās Day brings the third highest attendance each year. People who havenāt […]
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