Rethink. Rebuild. Reform.
I don’t know about you, but almost every week I see two or three posts on Facebook—that’s really the only social media platform I use—from people looking for the “perfect church.” And they almost always come with a list. They want a church with a great children’s ministry, the right…
Don’t ask Facebook which church we should attend. Instead, maybe we should spend some time with Jesus and ask Him where He wants us to go—or if He wants us to attend a church at all. Maybe He has other plans than crowdsourcing recommendations. Over the past year, I’ve read dozens of posts…
Why Every Sermon Needs a Disclaimer In our everyday lives, disclaimers are everywhere, and perhaps none is more relevant to the church than the idea of a Sermon Disclaimer. For example, when medicines are advertised on television, the commercial inevitably ends with a lengthy statement warning viewers that the miracle drug…
Some may think that I am a deconstructionist, trying to DECONSTRUCT the church. Honestly, I didn’t even know about this term until recently. Over the years, this blog has gone through many changes —really. It’s not really about turning the world upside down, but more about a journey I am…
A New Perspective on Church Buildings and Ministry Years ago, I had a client who was the marketing director of a prominent television ministry. Before working with us, he’d been involved in another major ministry. I remember discussing topics such as products, pricing, donation requests, upsells, and the financial aspects…
For years, I have prayed for, studied, and preached about revival. When I became a pastor in the institutional church system, my sole desire was to bring revival to the church and transformation to the city where the church was located. Sadly, after 17 years, that was not the result.…
I recently saw a Facebook post asking, “Why do you go to church?” My immediate thought was to answer, “I don’t.” But I quickly realized that answer was too abrupt, especially for the religious mind that might quickly write me off as a heathen sinner on his way to hell.…
What should a church gathering look like? Should it look like a classroom? Should it be a lecture hall? What about a huge concert stage? Do the scriptures give us any directions as to how to gather? What then is the right course, believers? When you meet together, each one has…
So what is the difference between churched, unchurched and dechurched and why does it matter? I have been thinking a lot about the dechurched people in my region lately. I researched and discovered that approximately 40 million people in America have left the church system over the last 25 years.…
I woke up early this morning with the phrase, “Dechurching is Detoxing,” running through my mind. This is one of the ways I’ve learned to hear from the Holy Spirit. Detoxing on a physical level is simply removing the impurities that get into our physical bodies through the food we…