The Lurking Drain Under Sunday Attendance
It’s no secret. Weekly church attendance is down. Where did everybody go? A local pastor gave me two simple answers to the question. He said …
It’s no secret. Weekly church attendance is down. Where did everybody go? A local pastor gave me two simple answers to the question. He said …
We sounded a somewhat irreverent alarm over 25 years ago about the state of children’s curriculum in churches. The book that my wife Joani and …
As the speed of change heats up, what kinds of people will staff the churches of tomorrow? We posed that question at Group’s recent Future …
It happens in churches across the country every Sunday. This time, though, the outcome was tragic. Robert Braxton III, 27, took a seat in a …
Jesus didn’t arrange his followers in little rows and ask them to complete fill-in-the-blank worksheets. He knew that discipleship was much more than an academic …
Our society is deeply divided–cast into political, racial and economic schisms. But what about the church? Is the church today an agent of harmony–or division? …
What makes a successful church? Today it’s all about the numbers. Attendance, or rate of attendance growth–that’s the measurement of success. Or so you’d assume. …
Most Americans believe the country’s race relations are generally bad. And some are wondering about the connection between race and religion. Are churches generally helping–or …
Young people are staying away from the church in growing numbers. But why? When you pose that question to those inside the church, it seems …
Why don’t our efforts at disciple-making result in more obvious disciples–people who live out their attachment to Jesus every day? Part of the problem comes …