This week I am sharing something from Eric Geiger’s blog: “I did a bit of research and discovered I had accidentally joined a cult. Dissertations have been written on “the Jeep people”—the people who love a vehicle that rides rough and gets horrible gas mileage because we can take the […]
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The Sunshine Class was started in1976 by Ethel Losier. Ethel and her family attended Thunder Bay Free Methodist Church but she felt that the Sunday school classes offered at the time were beyond her mentally disabled daughter’s understanding – so with God’s prompting Ethel began the Sunshine Class. Initially there
““Of course I want to reach lost people,” … but I’m not going to see us change the music. … but I’m not going to lead a capital campaign to raise the money. … but I’m not going to park far away. … but I’m not going to risk stirring
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Pastor Doug Dawson from Open Arms in Tillsonburg, ON shared this story about Leonel who was a regular at Brazos Abiertos, an outreach ministry for Spanish speaking migrant workers. We may never see Leonel again and that is good news. This statement doesn’t make a lot of sense without Leonel’s back
““Wouldn’t it be great if we had an app that measured our engagement with unbelievers?” something ran a running total of: Amount of Time x Depth of Relationship x Unbelievers Sadly, for many, the product would be small, low single digits. It is so easy to fill our time with
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I continue to dig into Thom Rainer’s work on the topic of church health – inspired by his book Autopsy of a Deceased Church. Here are some more challenging thoughts from his blog, “Seven Factors That Are Hindering Evangelism in Churches.” Of course the idea is to make sure that
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As some of you are aware, every week on the FMCIC website and Facebook page we post a link to what we hope is a helpful article. We do it to celebrate Church Health Thursdays – a day that I totally made up but that works. If you haven’t checked
“But what we need to realize is that some unpleasantness inherent to a healthy local church is NOT an imperfection, but a necessary attribute of faithfulness. Here are four bitter pills that you may prefer to avoid swallowing, but should view as a sign that you’ve found a good church home.
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