Church decline
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Blog Learning from Kodak
Kodak—long the most esteemed name in the camera business—declared bankruptcy last month. Many business analysts have been discussing the reasons for the esteemed…
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Blog Aging and Church Challenges
I have a confession. I have had spies at many of the United Methodist Church’s annual conferences during the last few weeks. Well, I guess they weren’t really spies…
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Blog Movie Theaters and Church
I love going to theaters. Check that. I used to love going to theaters. It was always a form of escape. I often went alone because I could be immersed into the world that the…
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Blog Dying Churches
If Jesus is Lord of the living, why are there so many dying churches? Ministry is tough. And at its roughest times, it can make us doubt the goodness of God. Why is the Body of…
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Blog Just Tell Me What to Think
A lot of people are trying to “detox” from evangelicalism. That means that people are taking a second look at our previous “assumptions” about…
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Blog Good Growth
The church I grew up in has doubled in size since my time there in the 80s and 90s. I'm not great at estimating numbers, but I would say there were 500-750 members fifteen years…
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