Church

Outward focus

The sheer quantity of activities involved in a church can wear everybody out. Such churches may be excellent social organizations, where members enjoy relationships with one another, but they have little transformational impact

The internally driven leader

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” Robert Quinn describes three types of leadership in his book Deep Change. The first type of leadership is technical, focusing on personal survival and

Birchington Baptist

I missed the bus to Canterbury on Sunday by twenty seconds. I ended up going to Birchington Baptist, the little village church not far from Dad’s. The first time we went there,

If revival comes

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” From the Resonate Soapbox: …if Canada is going to experience revival it will come because we rediscover our love for God and His kingdom.

Facing up

In Breakout Churches, Thom Rainer writes: Good churches do not become breakout churches until the leaders confront reality. And most church leaders are unable or unwilling to confront reality…The leaders of breakout