Planting a Sending Church
Your church is not just for your neighborhood, but for the nations.
Your church is not just for your neighborhood, but for the nations.
It is often a judgment call of whether to say yes or no.
Churches can be places where followers of Christ carefully listen to and pray through people’s life stories with empathy, guiding them toward hope and healing through spiritual backstories.
Too many prayer-focused Christians lock themselves in a room, claim to get filled with the Holy Spirit moving, but then never go out of their prayer closets to share the Good News.
Some church leaders question whether asking numerical numbers borders on the idolatry of numbers. Others simply don’t worry about attendance numbers.
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Love God. Love your neighbor. That’s it. The absolute minimum for faith in action.
Intergenerational mentoring shows that those who are younger feel more comfortable taking advice from peers instead of those who are older and more seasoned (put another way: from someone who has actually done something, over time, with success).
I’m a white male who teaches at a prestigious college. There’s much to unpack in that sentence, but it’s certainly a position of cultural power. As a white male, I’m certainly representative of the majority culture in the contexts where I live. So, I think part of the question is: How is the conversation different … Continued