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A pretty common challenge among churches has to do with the number of people in the pews on Sunday morning. In the words of a sainted mentor of mine from years ago, “there is more wood than people” meaning there

If you don’t want things to change then all you need is management. If you want things to change though, you need leadership. Yet do you want the kind of  leadership where things blow up? Certainly not. We want healthy

We make a lot of assumptions about what we do and how we do it. It is often necessary to make assumptions. It is more efficient that way. Assumptions allow us to put some things on autopilot. This is necessary

“It can’t be me. I’m not the problem. I preach evangelism. I preach serving. I work a lot of hours caring for others. I can’t do anything more. How can I be the problem? In fact, I’m a little bit

In the last blog we wrote about the 10 reasons we don’t invite other people to church. Often the biggest barrier is the first reason: we haven’t “outed” ourselves as Christians. It is far easier to be “undercover” Christians. So

We have not “outed” ourselves as Christians. We’d rather just go around and be a nice person than be labelled a Christian. We don’t talk about our church, we don’t talk about spiritual things. We don’t offer to put people

In today’s church one of the biggest criticisms from outside the church is that Christians don’t act like Christians. Their profession (of faith) doesn’t match their behavior. Indeed, we see it ourselves when members don’t worship, they seldom attend Bible

  Expediency [ik-spee-dee-uh n-see] noun, plural expediencies. 1. The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation. 2. Pursuit of the course of action that brings the