“We’ve got lots of opportunities. What we don’t have are the members to take advantage of any of them. Everyone is exhausted.”
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Let’s be honest, the pandemic and the post-pandemic migration has been rough on all of us.
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Every church thinks they are the friendliest church in town.
If your church is like the one I last pastored, it still uses a “Welcome” time in the service.” In this part of the service the expectation is that the people stand and greet those around them. This usually involves people tossing a quick […]
Ray is twenty-seven years old and works in IT at the local university. He’s been married for three years and he and Jessica just had a baby girl a couple of months ago. Life is pretty good for Ray and Jessica. They own their home – well, the bank owns it, but they bought […]
This morning, I had the opportunity to reach out to a colleague who was struggling to grow his church. He was averaging about twenty-five, but on Easter there were over 100 who showed up. Since then, though, his congregation has been mostly unwilling to step up to do the work of transformation. He was […]
Jesus said to go make disciples. It’s the main thing for Jesus. Is it themain thing for you and your church?
There are so many people who are not connected to Jesus and hischurch in our country at this time. People are needlessly flounderingwithout the peace, joy, and love which can only be realized throughfaith […]
Ever wondered why you’re on this earth? Ever wondered what your ultimate purpose in life is? I know there were times when I did, until the day I met Jesus and all that changed. It should also change for you if you know Jesus. Notice, I didn’t say God, because that is too generic […]
I’m a big “DNA” fan; that is, I believe that, before a church can be effectively planted, grown, or transformed (pick whichever category you find yourself in), its leaders, and ultimately its congregation, have to wrestle with this question: “Why do we exist and what does it matter?” Once the grappling is over and the leaders emerge […]
By Bill Tenny-Brittian
One of my biggest concerns about my House Church colleagues in other networks is that they tend to write articles, columns, and books on how the more established building-based churches are out of touch with God’s vision for the church and how the House Church is really the only church God had in mind. […]
Over 50,000 people committed suicide last year. Over 100,000 people this past year typed into Google “I want to die.” Suicide and looking for a reason not to blow their brains are both on the rise. I find it curious that this rise in depression comes at the very time that Christianity is on […]
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