by Artie Davis | Feb 1, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
There are a lot of new buzz words and strategies these days for planting churches. I must admit, I am from a small town and I need things to be simple in order to understand them. Studying through the book of Acts, it seems the first church planted new churches and...
by Martin Buehlmann | Jan 30, 2012 | Church Leadership, Outreach and Evangelism
About three years ago I met a middle-aged man who had been working as an art conservator during the former GDR (German Democratic Republic), the Socialist Germany. He had been fired after the reunification of Germany and was since then jobless. He had been through a...
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 Mark Batterson | Jan 3, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
II Thessalonians 3:11 says, “We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies.” Most of us major in minors and minor in majors. It’s so hard to keep the main thing the main thing isn’t it? Before you know it, we’re focused...
by Neil Cole | Dec 31, 2011 | Church Leadership
Earlier this week I was asked what I think about the upswing in the trend of church mergers. I first responded with a question of my own:Do you want the real answer or the nice one? To his credit he asked for the real one and I gave it. You didn’t ask, but here...
