From Christianity Today.com…
After modeling a seeker-sensitive approach to church growth for three decades, Willow Creek Community Church now plans to gear its weekend services toward mature believers seeking to grow in their faith.
The change comes on the heels of an ongoing four-year research effort first made public late last summer in Reveal: Where Are You?, [...]
You may think I am a bad parent for admitting this, but I have only attended a few of my children’s parent/teacher conferences. It is true, I usually attend a conference at the same time the parent/teachers conferences are usually scheduled so I am away from home or traveling.
This year I decided to skip [...]
This morning I was at home taking some time off after missing my off day over the weekend. It was about 10:30 AM when my phone rang. When I picked it up there was a slight delay that clued me into the fact that a recoreded message was coming.
Sure enough, this is what I heard. [...]
Why do some churches decline and others thrive?
Is it style? Leadership? Programming? God’s will? According to Pastor Erwin McManus, it is that something else. Style, leadership, and programming is not the issue, but the heart is.
Quoting from the story…
“My primary assessment would be because American Christians tend to be incredibly self-indulgent so [...]
I started at my church in the fall of 2000. When I arrived, we were worshiping at around 550 on a Sunday. Two and a half years later we hit a low of 179. What happened? Several things.
By far the most significant was the moral failure of our senior pastor. For [...]
Have you heard of the book, UnChristian? It has been very well recieved and is on my pile of books to read soon.
One of the authors, Gabe Lyons, was interviewed recently on Headline News. Here is that interview.
Found at ChurchForMenInFlorida.
We have all seen it and probably done it. The Christmas pageant that looks something like this….
The same costumes are used year after year and an amount of familiarity is part of the experience. It probably takes about 100 bucks to put it on. That is not as much as these [...]
Steven Levitt, who wrote the great book Freakonomics, had an interesting post on his blog a while back about the popularity of books about atheism. He asks in a post titled, Cut God some Slack……
… who buys these books?
I’m not religious. I don’t think much about God, except when I am in a pinch [...]
