They may frustrate you with their expectations or intimidate you with their social connections. They’re “Digital Natives” while we struggle as “Digital Immigrants”. What they want from church is very different as well. Here is research data from Dave Tonen regarding what the 18-30 year old crowd want from you and I at church: Community [...]
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Do Young People Desire Anguish?
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged Authentic, building momentum, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Faith, Leadership, legitimacy, Purpose, Relevant Ministry, Valuable life goal, vision on July 14, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Yes, I’m Addicted
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, Evolving Culture, tagged Authentic, Bahler Family Doing Life, community, Connecting, connection, Consumerism, Hope, Valuable life goal on June 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m an addict. I must confess. Maybe you are as well? I took the Father’s Day challenge and unhooked from the web all day Sunday. I even let my smart phone battery go dead. And it was, well…lonely. For 24 hours I lost connection with all my on-line chatter. No news, Facebook, email, text messages, [...]
A Careful Man
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, tagged Authentic, Bahler Family Doing Life, clarity, communication, Empowering Leadership, Hope, Leadership, love, Purpose, trust, Valuable life goal, vision on March 18, 2011 | 17 Comments »
My dad passed away last night. He suffered from Alzheimer’s and deteriorated rapidly over the past few weeks. It was a blessing to have my mom and all eight of us kids around his bed as his breathing grew slower and slower. It was a special time as we told stories and sang old hymns [...]
Facebook Joseph and Mary
Posted in Evolving Culture, tagged Authentic, Evolving Culture on December 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Had Facebook been active 2010 years ago what would have Joseph and Mary’s social networking looked like? Check this out! Touching…somehow it makes it all very real.
Generational Tension
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged alignment, Authentic, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Leadership, Relevant Ministry, trust, Valuable life goal on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Practically every church we work with is wrestling with generational tension. Check out this timely insight from the recent Catalyst Conference. Craig Groeschel of LifeChurch.tv (Edmond, OK) nailed it: We have a spiritual enemy that wants to divide us by denominations, so that we don’t work together. And I also have a hunch he wants [...]
Don’t Be Ridiculed for the Wrong Thing
Posted in Empowering Leadership, tagged Authentic, clarity, Relevant Ministry, vision on July 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Do you relate with these comments from Phil Cooke? For most of my life, Christians were laughed at or ridiculed for the wrong things. The non-believing culture made fun of boycotts, our protests over irrelevant issues, or crazy promotional stunts in the name of the gospel. Far too often, some Christians took the “peculiar people” [...]
Gotcha!
Posted in Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged Authentic, Bahler Family Doing Life, Evolving Culture, Faith, Hope, legitimacy, love, Purpose, Valuable life goal on June 18, 2010 | 10 Comments »
We found out yesterday that our “Gotcha Date” is July 12th. That’s the date we actually pick up our new 12-year-old daughter in China. “But why the term Gotcha?” I asked Sara Lang at Madison Adoption. Sara explained that at age 14 the Chinese government considers orphans adults, which terminates their availability for adoption as [...]
What about the other 180 million?
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged Authentic, building momentum, Connecting, connection, Consumerism, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Hope, Leadership, Relevant Ministry, Three Relevant Ministry Responses, trust on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Al Hirsch, author of The Shaping Of Things To Come and The Forgotten Ways, estimates that only 40% of the US population can be reached with the prevailing church models of today (mega church, multi site, small groups, etc). Of course 40% does represent 120 million Americans who are open to a church model built [...]
A Noticable Buzz
Posted in Empowering Leadership, tagged alignment, Authentic, clarity, communication, community, Connecting, connection, Empowering Leadership, Faith, Hope, Leadership, mega church, ministry, missional, Missional Resurgence, Purpose, Relevant Ministry on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is a noticeable buzz in both offices this week! Activity is picking up and we are rolling in 2010. Thanks for everyone’s hard work – you’re a great team! That was the last line in today’s weekly update to the Aspen team. Its remarkable really, even though unemployment is over 10% giving to some [...]
Reflection And Wisdom
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged Authentic, Bahler Family Doing Life, Evolving Culture, Hope, Leadership, legitimacy, love, Relevant Ministry, trust on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I recently read that we learn wisdom three ways: 1. by reflection, which is noblest; 2. by imitation, which is easiest; 3. by experience, which is the bitterest. I’ve always aspired to nobility so here’s my reflection on lessons learned from 2009: We need a deeply anchored faith when culture and values are shifting rapidly…seek [...]
2009 – Christianity In Review #2
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged alignment, Authentic, clarity, communication, Consumerism, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Faith, Leadership, Missional Ministry, Purpose, Relevant Ministry, trust on December 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Theme #3: Biblical literacy is low and will remain so. Barna’s findings related to Bible knowledge and application indicate that little progress, if any, is being made toward becoming more biblically literate. Barna notes, “Bible reading has become the religious equivalent of sound-bite journalism. When people read from the Bible they typically open it without [...]
Missing Life
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, Evolving Culture, tagged Authentic, Bahler Family Doing Life, connection, Consumerism, Evolving Culture, Valuable life goal, vision on October 5, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Two thousand years ago the Romans were powerful, but rude, and missed the more important things in life. Today you Americans are powerful, but rude, and are missing the more important things in life. That was a caution from our host, Roberto Russo, the owner of a working farm villa in Cortona, Italy. You may [...]
Are They Astonished?
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged alignment, Authentic, building momentum, clarity, Connecting, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Faith, Hope, Leadership, Purpose, Relevant Ministry, trust, vision on September 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When they say the courage of Peter and John, and realized that they were unschooled and ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. Acts 4 How many people have you astonished recently with your courage? Are they taking note that you’ve been with Jesus? Few of [...]
Is Science Becoming More Religious?
Posted in Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged Authentic, Evolving Culture, trust, vision on August 31, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Christianity Today reports that 42% of scientists ages 18-34 believe in God. However, only 28% of them 65 and older do, compared to the 83% of all Americans that believe in God. Why do you think younger scientists are becoming more faith based? Could the awe of creation exposed by more powerful telescopes and microscopes [...]
Ten Keys To Great Discoveries
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, Empowering Leadership, tagged Authentic, Bahler Family Doing Life, clarity, communication, Connecting, connection, Empowering Leadership, Faith, Leadership, legitimacy, love, Relevant Ministry, trust on August 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Why is it that we build trust with some people quickly but hold back with others? When we keep our distance, it’s impossible to have those deep conversations that lead to profound discoveries and progress. Trust matters. I’ve spent the last three days in remarkable Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I’m here for my first Transforming Church [...]
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