Does It Have To Be This Way?
Has there been a loss or a separation in your life that turned out — in ways you couldn’t see at the time — to be to your advantage? What shifted?
Has there been a loss or a separation in your life that turned out — in ways you couldn’t see at the time — to be to your advantage? What shifted?
Nobody joins a church board dreaming about bylaws. But I’ve become convinced governance isn’t the boring prerequisite to mission it’s the thing that either frees your church to move or quietly strangles its ability to.
Honest post: why I’m still LCMS, even when it frustrates me.
Not a defense with my eyes closed. Not a critic with one foot out the door. Just the truth about what keeps me here theology, sacraments, liturgy, and a family I didn’t choose but wouldn’t trade.
The mission infrastructure your congregation needs already exists. Most of it just isn’t pointed at anything yet.
Faithfulness sometimes looks like letting go of what you’ve built so that something greater can be born. The case for merger, consolidation, and multisite as mission strategy — not institutional survival.
What would it look like if the church lost its walls? What would it look like if there was no boundary holding the church back? What woudl happen if one day God just knocked down our walls of fear and separation and released us into the world? Well…welcome to 2020! The current reality of the…
It’s easy to shout what we’re against but are you prepared to share what you’re for?