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Church

Prayer for Holy Rebels … [Do I Really Want to Do This?]

I’m beginning to pray for something that just might be filed under the category, “be careful what you ask for!”
As you know, if you’ve been following my blog, the church where I serve as pastor is entering into a major transition.  We’re taking the step of purchasing a building.  And while it is our deep [...]

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Thinking About ‘The Screen’ in Worship

Ben Myers has posted an interesting report on his visit to a mega-church in Sydney, Australia (Hillsong).  It got me thinking about the use of “the screen” in Christian worship gatherings.  Here is a re-post of the part of his blog that’s gotten to me:
… for me, the most interesting aspect of the service was [...]

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Churches and Debt

In 2006, churches in North America were a collective $28 billion in debt.  So says a recent article in the New York Times.  I serve on the leadership team of a church in Elizabethtown, Ky that is about to add to that total.  In 2003, I was part of the group that started The Bridge [...]

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Sunday School

From The Wall Street Journal …
The decline in Sunday schools appears to be gradual but steady. A study by the Barna Group indicated that in 2004 churches were 6% less likely to provide Sunday school for children ages 2 to 5 as in 1997. For middle-school kids, the decline was to 86% providing Sunday school [...]

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[Blank] Church

Here are the titles of some books on my shelf:
Organic Church (Cole)
Simple Church (Rainer & Geiger)
Emerging Church (Kimball)
Connecting Church (Frazee)
Purpose-Driven Church (Warren)
Equipping Church (Mallory)
And, of course, there are others out there that I don’t have on my shelf; Aqua Church (Sweet) and Total Church (Chester) come to mind.
What do you make of this [Blank] Church [...]

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Thermometer or Thermostat

Seth Godin (http://sethgodin.com/sg), in his latest book, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, writes:  “A thermostat is far more valuable than a thermometer.”
Think about thermometers.  They reveal the observable, indicate feelings, point out perceptions.  Most communities have their share of human “thermometers.”  They’re the ones whose interactions consist of criticizing, blaming, or grumbling.  Think [...]

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