When you read a few (hundred) articles or comments about church services a recurring theme is the need to present as well as we can. That’s okay, as long as your goal is excellence and not perfection. Excellence (for the point of this exercise) is doing the best you can, with what you’ve got, conscious …
Saddleback being the church planted by Rick Warren, of 40 Days of Purpose fame. A few insights and photos that show how Saddleback does things. I don’t know how to react to some. For instance, how do Saddleback utilise a guest preacher when the church conducts 22 (twenty-two) services across the weekend? “First, someone transcribed …
I like these questions from Timmy Brister. They are insightful, but don’t just set you up to bury your head in your hands and cry out: ‘I’ve/We’ve failed; I’ve/We’ve failed.’ They actually point to positive and constructive patterns of church life. 1. If our church would cease to exist in our city, would it be …
The Presbyterian Church of Australia, particularly through its Victorian Assembly, has been developing links with churches in Africa, one of which, I believe, is the Presbyterian Church in Malawi. Steve Salyards, at G.A. Junkie (yep, that’s what he calls his blog) has news about arrangements by which “the three synods of the Church of Central …
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