by Todd Hunter | Jun 26, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
Presently it is cool to bash the church. I get it. Things go in cycles. We just lived through a fifty-year period from the end of World War 2 to the 1990’s in which church was an acceptable cultural norm by the vast majority of people. But now cynicism about the...
by Martin Buehlmann | May 29, 2011 | Communication / Preaching, Outreach and Evangelism
Just imagine. You are strolling around in Berlin. All the sudden the spirit leads you to a middle aged woman who is pulling a little cart behind her filled with scrap metal. I am stopping. I am walking towards her. I am starting to talk to this woman I had never seen...
by Toni Spry | May 28, 2011 | Church Planting, Communication / Preaching, Outreach and Evangelism
I married a sailor. Never in a million years did I expect to be in the ministry. First off, we weren’t even Christians when we got married. And secondly, we had no training whatsoever. “But God…”– a phase commonly used in Scripture – had other plans for us. Maybe...
by Steve Pike | May 23, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
As long as I’ve been aware, the gold standard for measuring how a church is doing is “How many were in church last Sunday?” Every Monday the mental health of many pastors hangs in the balance depending on the answer to that question. If the numbers were up, the pastor...
by Toni Spry | Apr 28, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
In a book by Julian Lewis Watkins, The 100 Greatest Advertisements, Sir Earnest Shackleton is quoted as having placed an ad in a London newspaper at the turn of the last century looking for men to join him on an expedition to the South Pole. It read: “Men wanted for...
