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Strategic Planning in the Church
The Table podcast covers strategic planning and mission in the church this week. Many churches get set into a routine and move from week to week with no clear long term goals. How does a church move past that kind of routine? Aubrey Malphurs discusses this on our podcast over the next two weeks. He also covers how important planning and developing leadership is. I think it is a very useful discussion. Here is the link: http://www.dts.edu/thetable/play/reshaping-church-mission-vision/ Let me know what you think of what he says. In particular, it is developing leadership that sometimes is lacking. What kind of a program do pastors have for encouraging growth and involvement…
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Confessions of a Church Critic
“For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith” (Romans 12:3). When I first considered writing Christian articles/columns or a blog online the following thought came to mind: “Wouldn’t it be neat to visit different churches and then write a column rating that church? I could tell others what was cool about the church, where they were on the straight path, where they were straying, where tradition was overriding biblical teaching, where they had adopted…
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Leaving Christianity
Last week, writer Anne Rice—author of The Vampire Chronicles—publicly renounced Christianity, but not Christ, on her Facebook page. In 2004 she had come back to her Roman Catholic roots after a foray in atheism, during which time she wrote her vampire books. She later identified these books as reflecting her quest for meaning in a world without God. Embracing Jesus as her Savior, Anne announced that she would henceforth “write only for the Lord.” Her next two books were Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and Christ the Lord: Road to Cana, chronicling the life of Jesus. But now she’s had enough of the church: “For those who care, and…