Does your church make disciples or religious consumers? Wrestling with this unsettling question gave rise to Renovation of the Church (2011): in this book, Kent Carlson and Mike Lueken chronicle…
In 1996, Christian A. Schwarz (Natural Church Development) identified eight quality control characteristics of growing churches (e.g., empowering leadership, gift-oriented ministry, passionate spirituality).
Ron Toews “Coach training has given me a practical road map for conversations with others to help them discern where God is at work in, through and around them.” This…
CCMBC pastoral trends survey 2015 In November 2006, Stephen Harper was less than a year into his first term as prime minister, Gaddafi was still Libya’s long-standing revolutionary leader, and…
“Pastor, we’ve come to appreciate this church, and we’d like to become members. How do we join?” Music to a pastor’s ears? Not if the request comes from a person…