Why as a church would we be expressing an aim for two worship services on a Sunday morning instead of one? It’s a question we’re working through at MGPC. Steve McAlpine writes about the struggle of the church (his and others) to break through a growth barrier that does more than simply keep pace with …
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 king of numbered lists, Thom Rainer produces six distinctives of churches that experience resuscitation. I like them because these are distinctives that any healthy church must have, and if any church neglects or forsakes them they would run into decline. Rainer writes: Is church resuscitation common? No. Is church resuscitation possible? Yes. In God’s …
David Jones, pastor of Ann Street Presbyterian, is interviewed at Geneva Push on the subject of working alongside a church that is seeking to refocus its mission and ministry. …the first thing I did was listen, getting to know and understand the church, its history and people. There’s often more Gospel vitality than first appears …
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