Retail Religion Takes Us Down the Wrong Path Too Many People Are Spiritual Consumers Who Pursue a Retail Religion This idea of receiving services influences our church selection process. Seldom do people look for a church that gives them the...
8 Tips to Find a New Church When It Comes Time to Change Churches, Attitude Is Everything Last week we talked about when not to change churches, instead of looking to find a new church. Too often people treat their church as a commodity and...
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...
Why Do We Listen to a Sermon at Church Each Sunday? The Bible offers little support for a minister to preach a sermon to us at church Many changes occurred in church practices because of the Protestant Reformation some 500 years ago. One of those...
Are You a Sunday Morning Spectator or Performer? Church services have become an event, with consumers who come to watch a show Today’s churches contain two types of people. And each of us fits in one category or the other. We are either...
3 Ways to Worship God Worship means different things to different people, but what’s important is that we do it Some churches call their Sunday meeting a worship service. This has always troubled me. Yes, I knew that singing to God was a form of...
Church Community is Key: Seek Connection At All Costs If the church service you attend doesn’t provide meaningful connection, then you need to fix it or find a different church Despite being the most connected generation, Millennials are also...
Sunday is a Great Day For Some Recreation Having a regular Sabbath provides an opportunity to rest and recharge The dictionary defines recreation as a time of refreshment for our mind or body through the use of an activity that amuses or...
Do We Need to Listen to a Lecture Each Sunday at Church? Can you have a church service without hearing a preacher speak? Will you try? My wife and I recently visited a church. Though we didn’t know it before we walked in, their service would be...
