Mark Buchanan has two qualities you want in a Christian author: wise and constructive insight and skilled wordcraft. His latest book, Your Church Is Too Safe, releases soon and Buchanan’s blog has featured two chapters as recent posts. If you’ve got some time have a read of these. They’ll challenge and refresh you, all at …
From Craig Groeschel: If you weren’t on staff at your church, would you worship there? [to which I add, ‘Do you only attend in the evenings because you’re paid to?’] If you didn’t know ANYTHING about Jesus, what would you know about him after a normal weekend at your church? If you had a loved …
This post from Al Stewart clarifies a few things about local church outreach strategy and contains a helpful challenge. Whatever it is that you believe is your corporate means of reaching out and gathering in; is that actually happening? ht: Mikey Lynch Any church or ministry needs to have a growth dynamic. What I mean …
Andrew Jones at Tall Skinny Kiwi (a blog worth following) posted the following graphics and background on a survey on Australian attitudes to Christianity/the church. The last one is a bit of hoot with Aussies tested about their awareness of whether a saying is correctly attributed to Jesus. I was sort of hoping for a …
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