What’s so uncool about cool churches?
Unintended Consequences: How the “relevant” church and segregating youth is killing Christianity. I recently spent six-months doing a rotation as a hospital chaplain. One day I received a page (Yes,...
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http://uywi.org/event/reload-lab-phoenix-2012/ Why is church not working for the 19-35 year old? Why are high school students raised in the church increasingly dropping out now as well? What can be...
View ArticleHey hateful hater, big churches can be beautiful too.
Or: Some churches I like and why megachurch pastors should be reading the cultural tea-leaves. Even friends are beginning to ask, “Why are you so anti-mega church?” I would like to say once and for all...
View ArticleSeminar: Fast Growing Churches. What they do. What we can learn from them.
Click title to go to pdf and download slides and notes: Seminar: Fast Growing Churches. What they do. What we can learn from them. Tagged: 2/42 Church, celebration church, church growth, church of the...
View ArticleWafer Madness: 500 years of communion arguments made simple
What happens to the elements and the people who consume them? When we are talking about Communion, the answer is “it depends”. The options are listed below from “Why bother?” to “I’m seriously...
View ArticleHow we ruined worship: The church of me, for me, and about me.
Not all change is good. We humans are remarkably insular creatures. We tend to assume that our tiny slice of experience is the way things have always been and the way they should be. The here and now...
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