How Long Do You Stay at Church After the Service Ends? The Best Christian Community Happens After the Service Is Over Last week I asked, Why do people show up for church late? My wife and I try to arrive ten minutes early, a practice we developed...
Why Do People Show Up Late for Church? The Timing of When People Arrive at Church Reflects Their Priorities When my wife and I went on our grand adventure of visiting fifty-two churches in a year, we decided we’d try to arrive at church ten...
When Should You Change Churches? Changing Churches Should Be Rare, Not Commonplace In our Facebook group we discussed the post “When Not to Change Churches.” Justin asked a pertinent question: “When should you change churches?” I knew part of the...
When Not to Change Churches When We Go Church Shopping We Behave as Consumers and Don’t Honor God In today’s practice of retail religion, we pursue faith has a consumer and miss the purpose of church. We’re quick to change churches over the...
3 Keys to Successful Church Involvement Don’t Go to Church with a Passive Perspective: Be Engaged on Sunday Morning As a teenager, I often complained to my parents, “but I don’t get anything out of church.” Though they tried to reason with me...
We Need to Stop Interpreting Scripture Through the Lens of Our Practices The Bible should inform our actions, not justify our habits Christianity has its traditions and religious practices. We often persist in them with unexamined acceptance. And...
What’s More Important, Family or Church? We need to order our priorities with intention and do what matters most Whether we realize it or not, we form priorities to order our lives. For most of my adult existence my number one priority has been...
How a Business Mindset Influences the Church A church and its congregation shouldn’t let a corporate mentality infiltrate it’s thinking In “Why Business Practices Hurt the Church” we discussed how business thinking has improperly affected the...
Does Dropping Out of Church Mean Turning Your Back on God? Church attendance may relate to faith or the two may have no connection at all On a broader scope, I keep hearing reports that Millennials (or some other demographic) have turned from God...
What Do We Do When We Get Together? The Bible tells us to not give up meeting together, but we often miss the point As we persevere in our faith, one aspect of this is to not give up meeting together (Hebrews 10:25). Many people interpret this...
