Rethink. Rebuild. Reform.
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…
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…
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.…
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…
What a question. Is Churchianity, the church system, under a spirit of Witchcraft? I ask the hard questions. For some reason, I ask questions, often about things that no one else seems to question, things that most people take for granted. Because of those questions, which revolve around the church…
I went to church today… I did what is expected of every good Bible believer in Churchianity. I went to church. I drove into the parking lot, and someone waved at me as I entered the driveway. I got out of my car and walked toward the entrance, where someone…
For years I have grown more dissatisfied with church life. It isn’t that I don’t enjoy listening to sermons or participating in worship. It is just the gnawing sensation that there had to be more. There had to be more than just a weekly church service that was supposed to…
In his book, “Draw The Circle,” Mark Batterson wrote, “Every generation needs a reformation. For years, I prayed for, preached, studied about, and expectantly waited for revival to come to our local congregation, hoping that genuine revival would drastically change the community. After more than 17 years, it never happened.…