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Hey hateful hater, big churches can be beautiful too.
Or: Some churches I like and why megachurch pastors should be reading the cultural tea-leaves. Even friends are beginning to ask, “Why are you so anti-mega church?” I would like to say once and for all...
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Seminar: Fast Growing Churches. What they do. What we can learn from them.
Click link to download slides and notes: Seminar: Fast Growing Churches. What they do. What we can learn from them. Tagged: 2/42 Church, celebration church, church growth, church of the cross, Church...
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Celebrity Jeopardy, Pastor’s Edition
It is a game we find endlessly entertaining. It pays lavish cash gifts to the contestants – celebrity pastors long on speaking gifts and ego. Part of the appeal is that the game appears unscripted. In...
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How we ruined worship: The church of me, for me, and about me.
Not all change is good. We humans are remarkably insular creatures. We tend to assume that our tiny slice of experience is the way things have always been and the way they should be. The here and now...
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Why the big-box church works for the over 35 but not the under 25.
Last year the church that kicked off the California suburban-megachurch movement, the Crystal Cathedral, was sold to the local Catholic Diocese. The decline is being seen in an attendance drop off...
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