We Need Human Connection God Created Us to Thrive in Community In visiting congregations for my book 52 Churches, I realized the importance of community. Regardless of the music or the message we encountered during their service, the bigger...
Reflecting on Church #41: Reaching Out to Visitors Versus Hanging Out With Friends With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #41. Aside from...
Reflecting on Church #39: A Different Twist on Sharing a Meal With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #39. Many churches share a meal or food...
Reflecting on Church #37: It’s Time for a Serious Church Cleaning With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #37. This small church likes to...
We Must Rethink Sunday School Reform Sunday School as an Education Service to Your Community It may be strange to see Sunday school on this list of things we must change for our churches, but we should carefully reexamine it. Do you know the...
Reflecting on Church #28: The Allure of Christian Mystic With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #28. Steeped in ritual resulting from...
Realign our Church Practices of Music and Message We Must Rethink What Happens at Our Church Services A friend once said in his Sunday morning message that some people go to church for the music and put up with the sermon. Others go for the...
Reflecting on Church #22: Affirming One Another With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #22. During the public sharing time that wrapped up...
10 More New Testament Practices, Part 1 Consider the Example of the Early Church and Then Follow It We’ve already talked about the three main ways Jesus changed our perspectives for following him when he fulfilled the Old Testament prophets. The...
Reflecting on Church #9: A Potluck Builds Community With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #9. In a word, the potluck at this church was...
