Evangelism
How to ‘Handle’ an Atheist
Last Saturday night driving home from Meredith’s house, I was letting my radio scan through the local stations. Little did I know that Way of the Master Radio played every week (maybe even every day) on one of our local stations. Todd Friel is one of the hosts, along with Ray Comfort and [...]
I Get Excited!
Last week, I had the priviledge of overhearing (ok, maybe eavesdropping) on a conversation a couple tables down from me at the coffee shop. A pastor of a new church here in Greenville was meeting with a couple of the young leaders of his church discussing the particulars of the church vision.
I can honestly [...]
Great Article on Church Marketing
Ryan (the winner of our Feed Contest a while back) had a great article a few weeks abo on church marketing, and I thought I’d share some of his insights from that article with my readers.
In case you haven’t been able to tell, I’m a big fan of brainstorming sessions with members of the church. [...]
Stained Glass Masquerade
Wow, the past couple of days have been one of the most mind blowing days I’ve experienced in a while. It’s amazing some of the things God can teach you if you’ll just sit back and let Him teach, and that’s what I’ve been doing.
I know it seems simple, but it’s so very effective. [...]
Is Your Church a Lighthouse?
Far too often, in the modern church, we like to compensate for our inadequacies. If we aren’t reaching adults, we’ll spend tons of money to buy buses to start a bus ministry. If we aren’t reaching the kids, we compensate by buying fancy furniture for the church auditorium. It’s all very predictable. [...]
Neo-Fundamentalism
As one of my previous, and since removed, posts has made clear, I’m not going to be calling out ministries by name, unless I feel it extremely necessary. However, that isn’t to say that I don’t enjoy smart people making dumb people look…well…dumb.
Some of the best feeds in my reader are contemplative, coherant, well thought [...]
5 More Small Church Strategies
I’ve corresponded with a few pastors in the blogosphere since my last post on small church strategies, and I’ve been delighted to see many pastors of small churches actively seeking new strategies to serve their congregation, and potential congregation. It is because of this, I wanted to post a few more strategies that have [...]
Beware Sinful Innovation and Creativity
Yesterday’s post on Christian Excellence has received more positive feedback than almost any other blog post I’ve ever published. For that, I’m very thankful. Incidentally, yesterday saw a tremendous spike in traffic as well, although I’m sure it was unrelated.
Continuing in the same thread as yesterday’s post, I feel like it’s necessary to [...]
Christian Excellence
In the sect of Christianity I grew up in, and am currently on my way out of, there is a predominant attitude that excellence is not important in the church. There are the occasional exceptions to this rule, but by and large this is the way it is. Cutting corners is usually considered [...]
Lessons Learned from Sunday Morning TV Preachers
This past Sunday morning, for some reason I woke up at 5:00am and couldn’t go back to sleep (the nap I took later was AWESOME!). So for about 4 hours or so, I flipped through the channels on my cable TV.
What was surprising was how many preachers were on TV Sunday morning! I really couldn’t [...]