Ed Stetzer and Mike Dodson have an interesting new book out titled, Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Turned Around and Yours Can, Too.
Stetzer recently spoke about growing churches during the keynote address at the Church Revitalization Conference sponsored by New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Bob Burney reports a shocking “confession” from Willow Creek Community Church:
What we should find encouraging, at least, in this “confession” coming from the highest ranks of the Willow Creek Association is that they are coming to realize that their existing “model” does not help people grow into mature followers of Jesus Christ. Given the massive [...]
You don’t have to labor long in the church to encounter the full force of the sin of control in board and committee meetings, voter meetings, etc. I came across the following interesting quote from Darrell Gruder’s book, The Continuing Conversion of the Church:
“Sin as control continues to challenge the integrity of Christian witness. The [...]
Phil Steiger offers a couple of reflections on the missional church gleaned from Darrell Guder’s book, The Continuing Conversion of the Church. Guder offers this assertion about what an effective and mission oriented church will look like:
The Holy Spirit shapes God’s people for mission through the continuous encounter with the Scripture. Continuing conversion happens as [...]
In his book, The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard surely makes many church leaders uncomfortable by putting his finger on a weakness of the modern day Church:
“Truthfully, it seems to be a general law of social/historical development that institutions tend to distort and destroy the central function that brought them into existence. A few years ago [...]
According to Eric Ramsey of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board, “North America is the only continent in the world where the church is not growing.” Church planting is all the rage to reverse that trend, but Albert Mohler suggests church revitalization must also remain a valued and viable option for fulfilling the great [...]
David Wayne asks why church plants are the most successful at reaching people, and do established churches stand any chance of being renewed?
In his terrific slideshow on church planting in post-Christian U.S. Drew Goodmanson reports the following statistics:
Churches under 3 years reaching 10 people for every hundred church members Churches 3-15 years old win an [...]
Drew Goodmanson gives three reasons why church plants are more effective at evangelism than established churches, but he also has some suggestions for how established churches can be renewed.
Can established churches recapture the dna to reach people? I believe church planting is the most effective form of evangelism only because in it’s very nature it [...]
Tim Challies reviews the book, What is a Healthy Church? by Mark Dever:
“What is a Healthy Church? is a shortened, introductory version of Dever’s previous book 9 Marks of a Healthy Church written primarily for people in the pews rather than the men in the pulpits. After all, church health is not the sole responsibility [...]
Here is an excerpt from an interview with Steve Childers, seminary professor and President of Global Church Advancement:
So why do you think church planting is so important?
Because I believe the Church really is the hope of the world. Think about it. The Church is the only institution in the world both designed and equipped by [...]
