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 …
I studied (and failed) preaching at the then Queensland Presbyterian Theological Hall in the early 1990s. Back then the class motto was ‘iron sharpens iron’, or something like that. If you mention that phrase around the guys who studied there in that period you’ll probably find a few automatically hit the floor whimpering in the …
Continuing on our recent strand of posts about corporate prayer, Michael McKinley at the 9Marks blog has posted Six Ways To Help People Pray: Pretty much everyone would agree that prayer is an important part of the Christian life. And pretty much everyone would agree that most Christians don’t pray as much or as well …
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