There has been a steep decline in church attendance beginning with the baby boomers (those born between1946-1964) and continuing to the present generation. The most recent statistics indicate that we are not far from the place where the majority in the United States will identify themselves as so...
Category: Church Leadership
A Member of the Family
A synergism becomes possible when the church as the extended family builds up its households. And those households in turn build up the churches, which then impacts the community, enfolding others in the family of God. What's happening to your young people? Are your households maturing in the faith?
Story, Doctrine, Life
By Tom Patete: Sunday school stands as a central means by which churches nurture the flock, but what is the future of this venerable staple of the American church? Sunday school or any other form Christian education takes has to be done with biblical clarity and life-changing consequence, or inde...
A Question from the Children’s Ministry Conference
Question: Regarding the training of covenant children, how do you reconcile the covenant family concept (with the father as the primary teacher) with role of the church?
Teammates, Not Competitors
By Dean Conkle. Various ministries of the church are different from each other but that doesn't mean they can't work well together for a common cause or event.Viewing each other as teammates within the same overall mission will be a blessing to the whole of the church.
Discouragement
We must always be real. To cover ourselves with superficial expressions of piety or in other ways pretend that we are something that we are not is never appropriate.