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Sharing the Missional Journey
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The Church That Could
I remember my wife, Marilyn, reading a children's book to our three sons about a little railroad engine that was climbing a mountain. The engine kept saying, "I think I can! I think I can." When it reached the top, it said, "I thought I could! I thought I could."
In the community West Normandy Baptist Church serves, they discovered an under performing (turn-around) school, Normandy Village Elementary, where 70% of the students are on the free breakfast/lunch program. The school had very few community partners. The church has about 100 in attendance, but was committed to help. They found...
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The Millennials and Community Ministry
Millennials (those born between 1980 and 2000) are about to change completely the way we do church, missions and ministry. They number almost 78 million, the largest generation in America's history - more than their parents' generation, the much talked about "Baby Boomers." Generally, Millennials are described as hopeful, relational, learners, and looking less to religion (only 13% of them consider any type of spirituality to be important in their lives and only 6% can be described as "Evangelicals"). They are not anti-Christian. In some ways it is worse - most of them do not think of religious matters at...
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DIAGNOSTICS
pastortimmaynard | March 7, 2011
The statistics are alarming, to say the least. They are ?the crazy aunt that lives in the basement that nobody wants to talk about,? according to Ed Stetzer. They tells us that 8 in 10 American churches are declining, plateaued, or dead. That 3500 to 4000 churches close each year in the United States. That these numbers are increasing.
At the request of several people, I am publishing a list of diagnostic questions that should be asked to determine whether a church is in danger of having a reputation of being alive but are dead.? (Rev 3:2). ...
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