Tag: Church
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Voting with their feet
How is the church doing in 2025? What things are working and what are causing problems?
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Becoming a more caring church
Thoughts from a challenging conference on ways the future church can be more caring than it is now.
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Consumers or disciples?
Review of a book advocating a more holistic approach to the church’s mission of making disciples.
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An unsustainable leadership model
I guess we all know that being a leader can be hard work and stressful. Taking responsibility, setting direction, motivating and managing people with all their emotions and quirks, helping everyone to work together harmoniously and keeping everything on track can be emotionally exhausting. Carey Nieuwhof reckons pastors in the US (and probably elsewhere) have…
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Do spiritual misfits belong in church?
More and more young christians are leaving the church. Let’s think of ways to help them in their faith journey before they get to this point.
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The best way to learn
What is the most effective way for Christians to learn? You guessed it – it’s not sermons!
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The church: dying or being re-made?
Church attendances are still in decline in most western countries. Is the church changing and re-inventing itself, or is it simply dying?
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Agents of reconciliation? Five steps
First Nations Christians are looking to the white church for justice, reconciliation and friendship. How will we respond?
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Lost in the crowd?
The church has a message but what if no-one’s listening? What if we’re missing the point?
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Too much the same?
Many Christians are really comfortable with the familiar, but is it keeping the church from its mission?