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METRICS: JUMP GROUPS for Making Disciples
JUMP Groups are an adaptation for United Methodists of Neil Cole’s methods of organic church evangelism, from Cole’s Organic Church Planting Greenhouses training, Life Transformation Groups and methods of systematic prayer for the lost. [1] JUMP is an acronym for … Continue reading
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Before Change, Stop and Think
I appreciate the wisdom of Jim Collins, author of the classic 2001 book on beneficial change in organizations, Good to Great, as well as many other books on business. At New Years, we are always thinking about change, and he … Continue reading
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MASLOW'S HIERARCHY OF CHURCH?
Tom Rainer identifies a number of ways that Churches die, but I wonder if it is possible to arrange churches in a hierarchy similar to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. If the model works, a church will need to grow through … Continue reading
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Kaskaskia River District Leadership Training on Evangelism
It was a great blessing to be invited to share on the topic of “Helping My Small Church To Grow” at Albion UMC and Salem Grace UMC on the last two Sunday afternoons of January, 2015. What I shared is … Continue reading
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How Can We Measure Disciple Making?
In another Facebook conversation, a pastor quite correctly observed that it is very difficult to measure “making disciples” – so we default to counting “warm bottoms in pews.” And that the conversation on “making disciples” will be frustrating until we … Continue reading
Teenage angst … the spiritual version.
If we consider human psychological development to also describe spiritual development – some have written on this already – the movement described in Matthew Lee Anderson’s article and Scot McKnight’s blog is the loud, wrangling voice of adolescence busy differentiating … Continue reading
Pastoral Leadership at the Midsize Church – attendance 300-800
This provocative video challenges a lot of common understandings about what is required in pastoral leadership of churches with an average attendance of 300-800. Bill & Kris Tenny-Brittian call this a “mid-size” church. I prefer Herb Miller’s classifications of mid-size as between … Continue reading
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Beyond the Megachurch Myths
Ed Stetzer recently corrected some common misunderstandings about megachurches, sharing information from Scott Thumma, one of the top megachurch researchers in the country, and author (with Dave Travis) of the book Beyond Megachurch Myths. Stetzer comments (in italics here) on nine … Continue reading
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"Spiritual but not Religious" – Leafing and Leaving
To be a member means to be connected – to truly be a member of a church means being connected to Christ both directly and through a body of believers. When you are connected to the body, life giving blood … Continue reading
The Problem With Traditional Spiritual Disciplines and Disciple Making
Faith communities practice spiritual disciplines. Traditional spiritual disciplines are well defined by Richard J. Foster in Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998). Foster identifies twelve spiritual disciplines divided into three groups. Internal disciplines include: Meditation, … Continue reading
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