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Last Saturday a sobbing, middle aged lady showed up at our door. She was frightened, cold, and painfully hunched over a cane she had used to hobble the three hundred yards to our home. In the four years I’ve lived here we’d never met. Once we got her warmed up she regained her composure and [...]

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The progressives of today’s Church feel compelled to speak the Gospel into our current environment (and the world of our children) and are striving to adapt. The more careful members of the Church see this environment as a threat to their lifestyle and spiritual walk and are determined to live as a “separate people.” The resulting polarization [...]

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I’ve always tried to avoid trite Christian sayings like, “Christians aren’t perfect…just forgiven” or, “Be ye fishers of men. You catch ‘em; He’ll clean ‘em.” Yet after 30 years of walking with Christ, I still struggle to explain the all encompassing impact of the Christian life. Of course we know the Lord delights in a [...]

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“The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.” Wow! That’s a provocative line from a marketing blog called “Brand Autopsy.” Here are some more noteworthy thoughts from them about real strength: It’s so applicable to marketing that the loudest advertiser in the room probably has the weakest product in the room. [...]

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The most influential church in America, Willow Creek, is learning a sustainable ministry requires more than a “Seeker-Sensitive” model. The next few weeks I’ll explore what Willow and other ministry thought leaders are discovering. It’s apparent three “Relevant Ministry Responses” are emerging as vital for sustainable ministry in this “Digital Age”. The three are: 1) [...]

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This is the first of three Relevant Ministry Responses research suggests may be critical to ministry sustainability in a “Digital Age”. The last three months we’ve pondered the “Six Underlying Movements” influencing culture. You may recall “Underlying Movements” are those unseen influences lurking below the surface that provoke people to act differently. A bit of [...]

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The last post “This Generation Loves “Authentage” pondered this increased longing for things “authentic” and “vintage”. Marla Saunders commented on the post with two excellent questions: The First – “So is this predisposition toward a traditional looking church aesthetic only, or does it translate into action?” My experience suggests the longing isn’t about aesthetics at [...]

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A few months ago our Cornerstone Knowledge Network (CKN) team shared the results of our landmark research effort that has had the blogosphere absolutely buzzing. If you google “the unchurched prefer cathedrals” you’ll get 6-1/2 pages of articles discussing it…WOW! We never would have dreamed of such a response. In case you haven’t read the [...]

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