Rev Bill

“We’ve got to grow!”
These 4 words are the “rallying cry” for many church members — and many pastors fall into the trap of adopting that mantra for themselves. They believe that ministry effectiveness is based on how many attend your services on Sunday morning.
“We’ve got to grow!”
I fall into the trap of [...]

Chris Walker at Evangelism Coach has a great post — “6 Ways To Mess Up A Good Conversation” on how to “mess up” a conversation with someone about Christ.
Here are the 6 ways:
1. Interrupt a person’s private thoughts (i.e. — barge in when someone is trying to just have some quiet time
2.Slightly agressinve body [...]

Here’s a question for your Monday morning — is evangelism more important than discipleship — or is it the other way around?
There’s an interesting article at The Columbia Partnership’s web sitethat says it’s not a question of either / or — but both / and — that churches need to develop ways to do [...]

Last Monday I wrote about an interview I found online with Dan Kimball, author of They Like Jesus But Not The Church and co author of The Emerging Church on what his ideas about what it means to be a “missional church”.
Here is more of that interview – which includes an [...]

I ran across this an article this morning by Charles Arn of Church Growth Incorporated where he gives what he believes to be the top 5 principles of Church growth.
He lists the principles as:
1. Disciple – making is the number one priority. Churches need to focus on making disciples [...]