by Brian Davis | Apr 14, 2022 | Church Health, Church Revitalization, Coaching
There are lots of opinions about what a local church should look like, but at its CORE, the local church is a body of believers who “should” have the goal of effectively reaching people who don’t have a relationship with God, and making their faith-journey as easy as...
by Steve Sjogren | Apr 11, 2022 | Church Health, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
If the church was a mission to the moon, and I was the commander of the mission, my call to Mission Central would be: “Oh God, we have a problem!” The problem is that when the vast majority of people think of the Church, or of a Christian, their thoughts...
by Bill Easum | Mar 24, 2022 | Discipleship, Outreach and Evangelism
Commitment to organized religion is now declining at the same time the public passionately pursues personal, spiritual journeys. How ironic that established/mainline denominations are shrinking during one of the most intensely spiritual periods in North American...
by Ron Edmondson | Mar 21, 2022 | Church Health, Church Revitalization, Outreach and Evangelism, Small Church / Rural Church
One of our worship leaders shared a great line in an email to me. He and his wife met a couple from our area at a marriage retreat recently. As they got to know the new couple over the weekend they found out the couple didn’t currently have a church. The worship...
by Jeff Hoglen | Mar 14, 2022 | Church Health, Church Planting, Church Revitalization
I once heard a joke about statistics. The person giving the stats said – “73.267% of all stats are made up on the spot.” That may not be the case but it is difficult to trust every statistic that comes through your RSS feed. Thom Rainer and the good...
