As my last post indicates, I have been reading up on demographics lately. One of the things that I find interesting is that non-religious population blocs are self-destructive. They don’t have babies at the same rate as religious people (of any faith) do and therefore deplete their ranks over time. The practical implications for this [...]
That’s right: have ‘em when you are young and have them often. That’s my conclusion after reading this book. I am not kidding. I recently read Jonathan Last’s, “What to Expect When No One’s Expecting” and really enjoyed it. There are lots of counter-intuitive findings that make a book like this really fun. For example, [...]
….you can meet when you want to, not when tradition dictates: According to a new study published in the Review of Religious Research, an examination of declining attendance at 16 congregations revealed that many pastors place the most blame on children’s sports activities, since both practices and competitions are increasingly “scheduled on Sunday mornings at [...]
There was some excellent feedback on my post regarding the role of Western mission agencies – thanks for commenting. As I have been thinking about the way my organization is training and prepping people right now I have had a nagging thought about the need to readjust. How we talk about the role of the [...]
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The Foundry has reported on one of the briefs in the upcoming Supreme Court battle on same sex marriage. If the court affirms gay marriage religious liberties will be curtailed. Religious liberty doesn’t stop at the church doors. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the nonpartisan public-interest law firm dedicated to protecting the free expression [...]
I will be the first to say that I am not reading Rob Bell’s latest book. I concluded long ago that Bell has deconstructed theology to the point that it is no longer relevant. If you are interested (and I know many are after last weeks’ Bell musing on homosexuality), check out Tennent’s review. (HT [...]
I have been out of the country for a few weeks (seeing some AMAZING things) and have been getting “pinged” about a recent article by Justin Long on mission structures. At the same time, I was sent a report about mega-church involvement in missions and how organizations need to react to accommodate them. Finally, while [...]
Here is a little motivational poem I wrote for the seminar, “Overcoming Death by Email” The Worker Bee, J. Ted Esler Oh, to be a worker bee and only think of me, To go to office, school, or field, or to the factory. And do a task (and do it well) but not for other’s [...]
Multiplication. It’s a scary word for house churches. When we first started our house church it was three families that, within just a few weeks, became four that became the nucleus of our house church network. We then grew slowly but surely until we hit the point where it was becoming more and more difficult [...]
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