After posting about the church losing young leaders, I started thinking about how negative my outlook was, mostly because I didn’t talk about ways the church is and can keep young leaders. Churches today are having the hardest time in reaching and then keeping young leaders. Sure the reasons are almost endless, but the fact…
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5 Things Churches Can Learn From Coldplay
Coldplay is the most popular and most acclaimed band in the world. Hands down. I don’t even think it is a close competition. I guess you could say U2 is right there, but they’re on the down side of their best while Coldplay is still in the prime years. Coldplay also happens to be my…
The Comfortable Church
This post has been inspired through 3 separate things: Daniel wrote a comment on my post about seminary from last week that made me think. He said, “I thought all believers were called into ‘ministry’….Where does this idea that certain followers of Christ are called into a deeper level of ministry come from? In scripture…
Just One Thing
I’ve noticed something about myself and blogging in general: I tend and it tends to be critical. Seminary often provides perspective for me. Sitting in seminary classes on Friday, we talked a lot about how Christ died for the church and how the church is the bride of Christ. Yet almost everyone I know remains…
Creating Versus Conforming
I’ve heard it many times from many people: the church lags behind culture in innovation. Here is my problem: I don’t think it is true. The first thing that brought this to my mind is the article about half the contestants on American Idol being involved with their local church. Now I’m not saying that…
The One Man Ministry
There have been a number of posts within the past week on multi-site or video venue churches. Check out some posts with varying opinions and thoughts by Bob Hyatt, Brent Hodge, and Eugene Cho. There are a number of multiple site churches across the country, and the number continues to grow. I think it would…