Leadership
Youth: Is the era of Age Segmentation over?
Is the Era of Age Segmentation Over? A researcher argues that the future of youth ministry will require bringing the generations together. An Interview with Kara Powell | posted 9/18/2009 Is the Era of Age Segmentation Over? The statistics are grim. Rainer Research estimates that 70 percent of young people leave the church by age […]
Church and community
WHAT IS THE PLACE OF THE CHURCH IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY by Ric Benson Senior Pastor Kenmore Baptist Church Brisbane If regular examination of one’s life is an imperative for the individual, then how much more is it for a church that purports to be carrying out God’s will and which influences the lives of […]
Female Pastors (September 2009)
Number of Female Senior Pastors in Protestant Churches Doubles in Past altAfter decades of no growth in the ranks of female senior pastors serving in Protestant churches, a new Barna study that has tracked the ratio of male-to-female pastors indicates that women have made substantial gains in the past ten years. From the early 1990s […]
The Owl and the Ant
The Owl and the Ant (and the cricket) This post was written by Chuck McKay Posted on November 1, 2008 Filed Under Strategy and Tactics One day an ant stopped carrying food into the anthill, and paused to look around. The other ants kept scurrying around him intent in their tasks, but this ant, call […]
Notes on healthy churches
* Eddie Gibbs’ new book Churmorph (pp. 19ff.) lists five megatrends we could look at to understand contemporary cultural shifts – modernity to postmodernity, industrial to information age, Christendom to post-Christendom, production initiatives to consumer awareness (Hillsong, Planetshakers et al do this successfully, in terms of ‘attracting’ numbers), religious identity to spiritual awareness… * Were […]
U. S. Christianity on the decline
A decade ago, a majority of U.S.16-29 year olds were favorably disposed towards Christianity: today it’s only 16% (3% towards evangelical Christians). Why? Common perceptions – ‘anti-homosexual’ (91%), judgmental (87%), hypocritical (85%), old-fashioned (78%), too ‘political’ (75%), boring (68%), insensitive to others (70%). [Kinnamon & Lyons 2007]. Why? why? why? why? why?
Tribes: we need you to lead us
Seth Godin, Tribes: we need you to lead us (New York: Portfolio, 2008) ISBN 978-1-59184-233-0 Hardback, 151 pages Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw It is in our nature to gather in tribes. Seth Godin describes a tribe as a group of people connected to one another, a leader and an idea. Implied by this definition is […]
Worship
Christian Worship The early Christian Church came into being as a liturgical church because Jews worshipped liturgically. The New Testament records numerous instances of liturgical worship, which range from pure Jewish practices (such as Peter and John going to the Temple because it was the hour of prayer) to Christian liturgical worship (which confirms that […]
Stadium-rock spirituality
From http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/catherine-deveny Note from Rowland: [Catherine Deveny is a Melbourne atheist (very ex-Catholic) who visited a Quaker meeting, a Catholic church service, and a Planetshakers (Pentecostal) meeting and wrote up her cynical impressions in The Age. Here’s her send-up of the latter]: Shaken but not stirred by stadium-rock spirituality * Catherine Deveny * July 29, […]
How Faith Varies by Church Size
How Faith Varies by Church Size The Barna Group, based on interviews with more than 3,000 adults, shows that congregational size is related to the nature of a congregation’s religious beliefs, religious behavior and demographic profile. There are clearly significant differences between the smallest and largest of Protestant churches in terms of the theological beliefs […]
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