Tim Chester recounts the experience of having God speak to him. Let me tell you about an amazing experience I had just this morning. Actually “amazing” doesn’t really do it justice. It was out of this world. This morning God spoke to me. I know that sounds weird, but I’m sure that’s what happened. The …
Last year mgpc tripled its Sunday School attendance. This came about because we adopted a Sunday morning practice of having Sunday School after our morning worship. It has come to be important to us in understanding and practice that gathering for worship on Sunday is not the equivalent of TAFE (with good coffee), and having …
Thom Rainer provides twelve characteristics found in healthy growing churches. (Part 1, Part 2) This is the sort of community we’re seeking to cultivate at mgpc. Lists such as this point to our trajectory. We haven’t arrived, and our attainments in some areas lag behind others, but they’re the direction we know we should be …
I’ve observed that when picking songs for church services around Christmas time new material needs to be incorporated sparingly because what people (regular and infrequent attenders alike) really want to sing are all the traditional songs. They’ll belt out the old stuff but stand there in polite bemusement during the new stuff. Mark Sumpter wishes …
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