Doing More Together The way churches are affiliated has changed over the past 20 years. We used to identify churches according to their denominational affiliation; now we are more likely to find a church that affiliates with a network in the place of or in addition to a denomination. To
By Thomas Lambrecht In the midst of the sometimes heated rhetoric around separation and the conflicts engendered by bishops and annual conferences who are imposing draconian requirements on churches desiring to disaffiliate from The United Methodist Church, it is easy to overlook the annual conferences where the process is
Is Your Church Becoming Irrelevant? (Stop Doing These 5 Things) Carey Nieuwhof identifies five things that will put our church on the fast track to irrelevance and suggests what we can do about them. They’re Not Coming BackLower church attendance is the “new normal.” We can learn to live with