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Why People Don
WHY PEOPLE DON’T GO TO CHURCH” Notes for the Mission Studies Network book discussion, 10 November 2005 Ross Langmead> John Bellamy, Alan Black, Keith Castle, Philip Hughes and Peter Kaldor, Why people don’t go to church (Adelaide: Openbook, 2002) This book is written by a team from the National Church Life Survey (NCLS) and Edith […]
Commitment to Christianity Depends On How It Is Measured
Commitment to Christianity Depends On How It Is Measured November 8, 2005 (Ventura, CA) Four out of every five adults in the United States consider themselves to be Christian. How committed are they to the Christian faith? It depends on how you measure commitment. Thats the conclusion of a new report from The Barna Group, […]
Greek Interlinear Website
From a pastor-friend: Hi all, I was wanting to introduce a Bible Study group to the challenges in Bible Translation after taking some questions on the merits of different translations of the Bible. I was going to dust off my old Greek / English Interlinear, photocopy a few verses and get the group to write […]
Pastors as Enablers?
Pastors as Enablers? Bishop Sally Dyck tells of a conversation she had with a woman who proudly announced that she was 91 years old. In course of the conversation the woman said, “I love my granddaughters, and I am grateful for their care and attention of me, but I really love my grandsons.” Sally asked […]
Alternative Forms of The Church
Rapid Increase in Alternative Forms of The Church Are Changing the Religious Landscape October 24, 2005 (Ventura, CA) For a rapidly growing number of Americans, a local church is no longer the place to go as their primary religious meeting place. A new study by The Barna Group shows that new forms of religious experience […]
Small and Large Churches
From a friend: . Jesus expects us to be fruitful as well as faithful. Using Paul Borden’s profiles of various church dynamics: A small church of up to 200 members is like an apple: a central core surrounded by flesh of very similar texture, density and appearance. a larger church from 200 to 750 members […]
Carson on The Emerging Church
Emerging Solutions—and Problems D. A. Carson’s theological analysis of Brian McLaren, et al. Reviewed by Eddie Gibbs | posted 10/17/2005 09:00 a.m. Any author attempting to profile the phenomenon of the “emerging church” faces a daunting task. Churches identifying themselves as emerging are new and diverse. Some have distanced themselves from both the mindset of […]
Leadership Jazz
Leadership Jazz | Book Review Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough I received this book as a gift — as did everyone else on the occasion of author Max De Pree’s retirement as a member of the Board of Trustees of Fuller Theological Seminary. It was a sunny winter day in Los Angeles — and in keeping […]
Committeespeak and bureaucracy
(Response to a pastor who got some gobbledegook from his denominational HQ): My friend, your theological education probably did not include radical social psychology, nor have you witnessed sufficient Yes Ministers, nor read Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (remember the character there who “made a fortune selling hogwash on an international scale.”) For my sins I did […]
Alternative worship venues
Road to salvation could lead to pub Sydney Morning Herald September 26 2005 By Linda Morris Religious Affairs Reporter The house of the Lord, traditionally a church of stained-glass windows and soaring steeples, is about to get a more homely makeover. The Uniting Church, the country’s third largest denomination, has warned its NSW congregations they […]
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