Church

As someone who doesn’t quite fit as well, but who is not willing to write it off, this is a helpful post.

I met Stephen Mawdsley at Ron Martoia’s Velocity Conference last year. Stephen is a thinker and someone who understands some of the questions churches need to be asking in today’s context.

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

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,

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