Monday’s Catch: An Easy Formula to Evaluate Your Church’s Growth (or Decline)
An Easy Formula to Evaluate Your Church’s Growth (or Decline)
While admittng no numerical formula is perfect, Thom Rainer offers church leaders a simple way of evaluating their churches’ growth or lack thereof.
How the Babylonian Exile Informs Gen Z’s Evangelism
If we’re to reach Babylon for Christ, we’ll need to do more than just post content that might be found—but might also get lost—amid the glut of media. We need to be a faithful, countercultural, compelling everyday presence.
Where is God’s movement taking place in new ways for new times? Cherished narratives, programs, language, and structures are no longer producing the fruit associated with them during past eras. Lovett Weems says innovation is possible if church leaders challenge the assumptions behind what we are doing because they no longer match the current reality.
Survey: US Hispanic Churches Could Do More if They Had More
Their pastors are mostly evangelical, sometimes bivocational, and eager for additional workers and funding to better serve their communities.
Might Will Not Make Right
You don’t have to be a hitman or tribal headhunter to use violence to serve your ambition. You can commit violence to someone’s name, reputation, or finances. Violence is a frame of mind before it is physical act. It is an ends-justify-the-means philosophy. You harden your heart to the pain you inflict on others in order to advance yourself.
A Royal Lesson on the Rumor Mill from The Princess of Wales
Gossip and rumor-mongering were bad enough in the days before the internet and social media. They have gotten far worse since their invention.
Your idea of goodness may not be kindness
Too often we in the church think our way is always righteous.
How does the Annunciation underpin fundamental beliefs within Christian faith?
The Annunciation holds a profound place in Christian theology, marking the moment when the angel Gabriel visited the Virgin Mary with a message of immense significance: the conception of Jesus, the Son of God.
Jesus’ Resurrection Confronts and Comforts
The truthfulness of Jesus’ resurrection should challenge skeptics and bring life-changing hope and comfort to every Christian.