Innovative Ministry
There’s a lot of upheaval going on in the church right now. And it’s not even close to being over.
There will be a great many local congregations and denominations that will not survive into the next generation or two. But that doesn't mean the church is dying. ...
There are two interesting, but conflicting conversations happening among church leaders right now. Especially, but not exclusively, on social media.
On the one hand, people are decrying the supposed shallowness of today's worship songs.
On the other hand, there's a push ...
Church planters are some of the great heroes of the faith. Especially when you realize how many church plants fail within the first few years.
But I wonder, how many failed churches might still be alive and well today if we didn’t pressure them to reach numerical goals ...
"When they zig, you zag."
I don't know who said it first, but a lot of people have said it since.
I'm a zagger.
I’ve tried to be a zigger. To go with the flow, not against it. To pick the low-hanging fruit.
But, time after time, without intending to, I find ...
There are so many ways to do church.
As long as you’re honoring the Bible, worshiping Jesus and loving people, no method or structure is wrong.
But any method or structure can be done wrong.
Thankfully, it can also be done right.
Whatever program, asset or resource you think ...
I’ve pastored three churches.
I left the first one in the middle of a long-term turnaround, believing it was best for someone else to finish the job I had started.
I left the second one early, when I realized I was not the right pastor to help the turnaround happen.
In the ...
The days of finding or creating a discipleship program, then using it for years, is over. Especially in a small church.
Our church created and implemented a great a discipleship class last year. In our church of 180 (average Sunday attendance) more than 60 adults took the class ...
What do you do when you have a message that doesn’t quite fit within the norm?
How do you get anyone to take you seriously? Especially in this interconnected world with so many voices yelling at us?
I’ve been asked those questions a few times lately about this blog, ...
Pastoring a small church is not for the faint of heart.
It involves ministering to and with people at every level of their lives. Spiritual, social, financial, emotional and more. All with extremely limited resources at every level, including time, staffing, facility, finances ...
We worship an eternally unchanging God, as seen in a book whose newest parts are almost 2,000 years old. That’s a lot of stability.
So why does it seem like every church leader talks more about the things my church needs to change than the things that need to stay the same? ...
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