by Ralph Moore | Mar 20, 2012 | Church Planting
Adapted from “How To Multiply Your Church” While the Western church is growing richer it is gradually edging itself to the margins of society. We’ve shown little numerical growth in two decades—furthermore our society seems more polarized than ever, mostly over...
by Dave Ferguson | Mar 7, 2012 | Church Leadership, Outreach and Evangelism
In the movie Moneyball, Brad Pitt plays the part of the Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane. While most of the baseball old timers and scouts had a set of stats they used to look for young prospects, Billy Beane understood that the only stat that mattered was...
by Geoff Surratt | Jan 13, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
Here is a question that has been bothering me a lot lately; there seems to be a new church plant in every theater and school in many towns, so do we really need more new churches? As I was reading the second chapter of Mark yesterday about Jesus’ calling Levi to...
by Rice Broocks | Dec 21, 2011 | Outreach and Evangelism
The death of outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens last week was mourned by both believer and non-believer alike. There was something about this man that people loved – even those whose faith he tried to destroy. He wrote how “religion ruins...
by Linda Bergquist | Nov 17, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
The church world “is often motivated by a culture of success. We recruit, fund, celebrate, propagate and evaluate based on predictable, measureable success rates.” I wrote these words in my October blog post “Out Of The Algorithm, Into The Mystery!”. Our...
