When multisite strategy is done right, healthy churches reproduce more disciples of Jesus. Unfortunately, my experiences at multisite churches are rarely one unified church meeting in multiple locations.
I am certain that the food tastes better when cooked in the oven, stove top and for MAXIMUM flavor—cooked for hours in a slow-cooking crockpot. The same is true for growing missional communities.
Here’s a story about Googling the gospel, but it starts a long time ago. It begins with people known in the ancient world as “Gentiles.”
Most of us hate the word wait. It’s a four-letter word that stirs up all sorts of negative emotions. Waiting ranks right up there with a root canal. Necessary, perhaps, but not at all fun. And waiting is often a hope-killer.
There’s nothing wrong with being a small church. I’m not at all opposed to small churches, but I do have a problem with some small church mentalities.
I’ve found that oftentimes we develop what I call the “ministry guise” as an excuse for just about anything “negative” in our churches. Has a pastoral identity crisis caused you to build a moat around yourself?
John Calvin helped shape the modern meaning of the word “talents” by defining them as gifts from God in the form of a person’s calling and natural abilities, rather than just spiritual gifts.
Several weeks into the new year, and with each day that passes, I’m hearing less and less about the New Year’s resolutions people set just a few weeks back.
Church planters are always thinking about church growth. What is it that seems to drive some churches to make a difference and reach more people while others struggle to keep the doors open?
Discipleship is the great calling of the church, and the only soil that grows disciples is a local church culture of spiritual formation. Every other ministry of the church can (and should) grow from this soil.
