“In order to reach every type of person, we must mobilize every type of Christian.” – Brian Sanders, author of Microchurches Imagine yourself standing in front of the church congregation on Sunday morning ready to give a motivating sermon. As you look to the seats, you see smiling faces across the room and realize how…
How do you respond when life gets really hard? Do you look for an escape route, or do you face it head on? Recently, my family and I realized that we’d be faced with these questions ourselves. That is, questions about how to respond when tragedy strikes. There are many ways to respond to the…
How often do you hear or say the words, “I’m going to church?” It’s a pretty common saying in our everyday Christian language, “to go to church” – Wouldn’t you agree? Is it correct to say this? And does it even matter? I think you’ll be surprised at my answer… Our communication language is…
Two weeks ago I asked the question – Where did evangelism go? Quite a few of you responded by adding a comment to the blog, emailing, or tweeting back to me. I wanted to take a minute and address this issue that, I believe, is crippling the American Church today. But before we can understand…
Evangelism has quietly left the church (but it’s still in the building). Long ago Christians went door to door to pray for their neighbors. We boldly shared our faith in the workplace, schools, and in social environments. But, somewhere along the way our method of introducing Christ to our neighbors, friends, coworkers, and classmates shifted…