Church growth

Article Throwaway Church
- By Matt Appling
- Posted on November 16th, 2011
“Throw Away World” Have you noticed how much stuff you throw away? Every week, I’ve got a couple of trash bags and some recyclables, stuff that was once useful…
Article Improve Your Communication: Q&A with Kem Meyer
- By Kem Meyer
- Posted on November 2nd, 2011
Your church has a valuable message to share. But before people in the congregation or community encounter that message, they encounter you. What are you saying? How are you…
Article Zombie Church: Restoring Life to the Undead
- By Tyler Edwards
- Posted on October 25th, 2011
There are zombie churches among us. The undead church. Where undead persons feast. Where genuine life has been lost, and in its place is something . . . scary. Lifeless. In some…
Article Change from the Edge
- By Rudy Rasmus and Dottie Escobedo-Frank
- Posted on October 4th, 2011
Change does not happen from the center. It happens, almost every time, from the edge. The center may hope for and call for change, but here’s the problem with that: it…
Article Contagious Christianity
- By George G. Hunter III
- Posted on September 27th, 2011
What makes Christianity contagious? We are sufficiently familiar with some of the answers: Contagious Christianity is imaginative, engaging, enthusiastic, and growing. Those …
Article Rescuing Pentecost
- By Eric Van Meter
- Posted on June 7th, 2011
Pentecost is in trouble. And that means trouble for the Church. It’s not that Pentecost is in danger of commercialization, like Christmas or even Easter. The Spirit is too…