Month: December 2012

  • Love With No Strings Attached

    One of the transformations that the church is going through is the metamorphosis into a new creation that has the motivation and ability to love with no strings attached.  Our more institutional churches struggle with aspects of this because the business of church requires attenders and givers to keep it all going.  However, we often…

  • Choudhrie’s Challenges Re-Visited

    There is nothing like Victor Chouhrie to keep our compasses pointed true-north and to… well… challenge us.  Victor has one of the most fruitful ministries ever with thousands of churches planted and hundreds of thousands of baptisms in India. You can read all 21 of his steps in a paper entitled “Mega Church to Meta…

  • From ‘Relevant’ to Something Real

    I met with a thirty-something couple yesterday who was describing the frustration of reaching out to people their own age who had grown up in church youth groups offering a typical ‘relevant’ Gospel.  While the appealing music and messages drew crowds together, many of those youngsters somehow missed the reality of a lasting intimacy with…