Trying to nurture a church culture that wants and welcomes growth (along with the dynamics of change that growth brings) is challenging. You’re trying to be ready to be one thing while, in some ways, you’re not that thing yet. It can feel overwhelming, tiring, and disruptive while what it is you’re working toward can …
The first of two posts by Steve McAlpine interacting with the basic ideas expressed in the post by Murray Lean I linked to last week called The Creeping Trend Of Church Absenteeism. Two significant points that I liked were firstly; McAlpine’s reservations about motivating people to more frequent attendance through guilt or greater effort. And …
At Gentle Reformation Jared Olivetti offers a formula that seeks to narrow the gap between communication practice and communication desired outcomes. The formula is: Information + Inclusion = Importance & Involvement +++ So before we start pointing fingers at congregation members for not showing up to work days or not “buying in” to the latest …
A curious modern situation: churches that focus on the Bible(though not necessarily reading the Bible, but that’s another post) when they meet , but not on corporate prayer. Megan Hill points out how historically anomalous this is, and how counterproductive in mission: In 1646 John Eliot, a minister in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, began preaching …
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