Church Health

Very often churches will ask me about how they can “get younger”.  Thom Rainer has some ideas on the subject in his blog, “Five Ways Some Senior Adult Churches Became Younger.”  

Leah Lesense challenges us all to imagine ways of making disciples beyond sitting together in a coffee shop in her blog, “Taking Discipleship Out of the Coffee Shop.”

As small groups get going again in many churches, Rick Warren reminds our groups of how they can work together to reach people for Jesus sake. Check out Rick Warren’s,  “7 Ways a Small Group Can Reach People for Jesus.”

“In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell suggests that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice are required to become world-class in any field. Perhaps you heard the same principle touted.  The number always felt too thin to me, as if it were missing an extra zero.” – from Margaret Feinberg’s blog “Why Malcolm Gladwell’s

Eric Geiger keeps it simple with three marks of a healthy church.  Simple but good. Check out “Marks of a Healthy Culture.”

“As a pastor, I hated the idea of evaluation. It sounded too much like a way to open myself up to needless criticism. After all, who really wants to invite an outsider to tell them what they are doing wrong, add more “to do’s” to their list, or make them

“There are certain metrics and issues physicians check when we go to the doctor. They want to check our blood pressure and temperature. They do blood tests to see if there are any warning signs. They are looking for symptoms that might indicate real problems exist. After working with churches

From the title, it may seem that Krish Kandiah is simply being critical of some methodology.  But look a little more closely at, “Want to Share the Gospel?  Here Are Four Bad Approaches” and he gets us thinking about how we share our faith.