The countdown ticked down the seconds on the screens as they waited for the opening chords of the worship band. The worship center was typically semi-crowded as the early birds and the on timers drifted in, glancing at the countdown … weighing up if they had time to go grab a coffee. They waited […]
Leaders Must Manage Their Teams
For our purpose we will define a team as “a small group of people with complementary skills who have affinity for one another and who are invited, not elected, by an individual to do the following: achieve a common goal and place that goal before their individual interests, integrate their […]
McLaren, BrianMore Ready Than You Realize – Evangelism as Dance in the Pos
More Ready Than You Realize – Evangelism as Dance in the Postmodern Matrix
(Grand Rapids, MI, Zondervan, 2002) 188 pages, paperback, $10.99. (Obtain from www.zondervan.com)
Another winner from Brian D. McLaren. His explanation of Aspiritual friendship,@ known to Modernity as Aevangelism,@ is as clear and […]
I’ve lived through a number of seismic shifts the last twenty years. These shifts have changed the way I think and consult and I’m watching how they have affected effective pastors. Those who haven’t assimilated these shifts lead declining churches and those who have assimilated them are leading growing churches. So I want to […]
Alpha church http://www.alphachurch.org/ You can join and even be baptized online. This is the most complete site I’ve found so far.
www.Life.TV has a large online community.
Gibbs, Eddie ChurchNext, Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), 252 pages, paperback, $14.99. Obtain from InterVarsity Press, P. O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515. www.ivpress.com
Gibbs traces nine of the major quantum shifts occurring today that he feels churches must address to be effective. Gibbs objectively analyzes the […]
Bill Tenny-Brittian and I have room for a few more people to coach in 2011. We limit the number of people we each coach, so if you’re interested, now is the time to contact us. You have your choice of either one of us at the moment.
Studies show that pastors who have a coach do […]
When most people hear the word “missionary” they think of someone going off to a foreign country. That used to the case. But no more. Today, in the U.S., we are called to be “back yard missionaries” to our networks.
Today, only 30 percent of the missionaries being sent out in the world are from the […]
When a young man came to Jesus seeking eternal life, he was told what he needed to do to change. Remember how he reacted? He walked away sad. Jesus then responded to the crowd that had gathered, “And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye […]
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