“If we are going to help Millennials to come or come back to church, we need to understand why the Millennials don’t come now. Here are five reasons.” Millennials have less patience with institutions. Millennials don’t trust institutions – that includes the church. Millennials are less likely to be married. Single people are less likely…
People never say, please listen I’m about to share a significant moment in my past OR please listen I’m about to reveal the motives of why I think a particular way or why I did something — Paul David Tripp For that reason, a person needs to be skilled in asking questions in order to…
People never say, please listen I’m about to share a significant moment in my past OR please listen I’m about to reveal the motives of why I think a particular way or why I did something — Paul David Tripp For that reason, a person needs to be skilled in asking questions in order to…
This year I’m going to be much more intentional with my time and one way I’m doing that is planning out my reading list 3 months in advance. Here’s what I’ve selected for January – March: January 2016 Generational IQ (helping me think through making decisions in the church that has, for the first time in…
Tim Chester and Steve Timmis in Everyday Church: Gospel Communities on Mission give five principles of community-based, gospel-centered, mutual pastoral care that are very helpful in answering the question, “What does everyday pastoral care look like?” And just as a preface, “pastoral care is not the sole responsibility of pastors anymore than evangelism is the sole…
Tim Chester and Steve Timmis in Everyday Church: Gospel Communities on Mission give five principles of community-based, gospel-centered, mutual pastoral care that are very helpful in answering the question, “What does everyday pastoral care look like?” And just as a preface, “pastoral care is not the sole responsibility of pastors anymore than evangelism is the sole…
Joshua Harris wrote a fantastic little book entitled Stop Dating The Church: Fall In Love With The Family Of God, where he walks through the beauty of the local church and the expectation that God puts forth in His Word that believers be connected to a local church. To that end, here are ten questions he gives to…
Joshua Harris wrote a fantastic little book entitled Stop Dating The Church: Fall In Love With The Family Of God, where he walks through the beauty of the local church and the expectation that God puts forth in His Word that believers be connected to a local church. To that end, here are ten questions he gives…
Why do we tend to live in the casual and superficial rather than the deep and personal regarding relationships? Busyness traps us into having superficial, casual conversations We buy into the lie that we are unique and struggle in ways that one else does We prefer darkness rather than light – we find the searching…
Why do we tend to live in the casual and superficial rather than deep and personal regarding relationships? Busyness traps us into having superficial, casual conversations We buy into the lie that we are unique and struggle in ways that one else does We prefer darkness rather than light – we find the searching light…
Theology Along the Way 