Why Your Church Needs Radical Mentors
Your church needs Radical mentors now more than ever. While Sunday sermons and small groups are vital, following Jesus is about more than just gathering inside a church building. It’s about how we live every…
Lamenting and Learning During Black History Month
Family trees exist to help us trace our origins and understand our lineage. As Jesus-followers, we’re born into a massive spiritual family. We have a long list of fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, brothers, and sisters…
Church is the First Stop
I don’t know anyone who is totally satisfied with their church. People who go to a large church want the warmth and connection of a smaller one. Others are trapped in smaller churches and hungry…
Why Belonging Matters
We all want to belong. God made us to belong. From Eden to everyman, there’s a deep need for attachment and belonging. We want to be included in things with other people. Someone asked famous…
Fill Your Seats: Generating Interest in Disciple-Making
Have you tried to fill your seats at church—with men ready to grow, lead, and follow Jesus? Those empty chairs could become powerful spaces for disciple-making.
Stronger Closer Together
Attending a seeker church as I do, the constant question is “Don’t we need to go deeper?” “Are we ‘fast food church,’ looking to make following Jesus quick-serve . . . high calorie, low cost,…
The Missing Peace
So next Sunday is the day preachers verbalize the Gospel and pray the ‘sinners prayer’ from the platform. And why not? It’s when the CEW&F people come to church . . . you gotta’ hit…
Don’t Stay in the Hall
In the England of C.S. Lewis’ day, there was quite a split in politics, culture and especially in the church. In his classic work, Mere Christianity Lewis waded into these waters . . . into…
Stop Counting?
Not too long ago, I heard Bob Goff say “We need to stop counting”. He’s busting on everything being so knotted up and measured. So ‘corporate’. He said love should be inefficient. Senselessly abundant and…
Church…Just Like You Like It!
Every Christian I’ve met has a paradigm of ‘church’. If they could wave a magic wand, their church would be a certain size, provide a certain kind of music and worship style, hire the perfect…
