As your community looks at reopening and moving beyond this current phase of Coronavirus, you are probably asking all kinds of similar questions. What will be the next normal?
Can We Measure the Deep Work of Ministry Training?
In the work of ministry training and making disciples success is difficult to measure: the best disciple-Maker in history invested three years in a group that looked like failures on the very same night he celebrated a “graduation dinner” with them.
Could “Content at Home” Be The Lesson We Need to Learn?
During the past two months, I wonder if we have learned to be content at home. Consider this: "Go Home" was the first message from the risen Jesus to his disciples. It was given to the women, who were the first to hear the earth-shattering news of the resurrection: The angel said to the women,…
7 Challenges for Church “Reentry”
I wrote previously about some of the positives I see coming for the church from the pandemic. Also, I listed three questions I think the church needs to be asking as we head back into our new realities. As I’ve continued studying where we are as a church and what our next steps are, I think we have…
5 Ways the Pandemic Is Saving the Church
COVID-19 is rightly seen as a plague on our world, leaving a wake of physical death and financial devastation in its path. Most would say it’s been terribly distressing to the church, as most churches around the world are not able to gather for weekly worship or physically interact as a community of faith. What…
Peace Be With You
As pastors and church planters we repeat some phrases so often it’s easy to forget they are true. In fact, some things are more than true: some liturgical phrases have the power to change the world. Like children who play with a chemistry set or recite E=Mc2 we are unaware of the power on our…
