Church Plants and Missions: Replanting a Church, Education, Part 1
We are working through an article by Scott Thomas on replanting an existing church, that is, renewing a church so that it grows and matures as a church plant does. Scott’s fourth point involves education for discipleship – c. Envision how education and discipleship could be effective (Acts 2:42). How will it become a passionate pursuit of

Church Plants and Missions: Mistakes to Avoid in Church Planting
I don’t often post videos (other than music), because I don’t have the patience (or time) to listen to a video when I can read so much more in the same time — and there’s so much worthwhile reading out there. And so I figure I shouldn’t unnecessarily tax my readers’ time either. But this is a really good one. It’s 7:41 minutes. You can watch it during halftime. The person being interviewed is Ed Stetzer, who works with the Southern Baptist Convention on church growth issues — and speaks to audiences of all denominations. The guy knows his stuff.

Church Plants and Missions: Replanting a Church, Evangelism, Part 2
We are working through an article by Scott Thomas on replanting an existing church, that is, renewing a church so that it grows and matures as a church plant does. So how do we get our members to evangelize? Well, by teaching good news that is so good they can’t help but evangelize. And this requires us to get away from the Reformation/Evangelical model of evangelism that says Christianity is all about going to heaven when we die. That’s just the f

Oh, Elizabeth! This is the big one! I’m coming to see you …
That was one scary football game!! I wasn’t sure my heart would survive it. Thanks to Julio and company for taking Auburn down — eventually — 26-21. Whew!!

Happy Thanksgiving
I am astonished beyond words (metaphorically speaking, of course) that no one has offered me a punch line on the How to Count Church Attendance Post. I figure everyone’s too busy traveling and cooking turkey. Therefore, I’m going to suspend posts until afte