https://network.crcna.org/ The Network en Thu, 25 Apr 2024 02:31:16 +0000 Thu, 09 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/church-now-conversation-connecting-next In this recording, Anna Radcliffe, Ruth Langkamp, and Larry Doornbos lead us into the world of Next Gen ministry and leadership development. Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/church-now-conversation-connecting-next Thu, 09 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/growing-library-church-now-conversations Pastors, leaders, council members and congregational members are all trying to navigate these times with grace and wisdom. In doing so we face multiple questions including: Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/growing-library-church-now-conversations Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:35:08 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/conversation-michael-goheen-missionary Ecclesiology is first of all about the church’s identity—who we are and who we serve. And if the biblical story is not the place where our identity is forged, then by default this place will be somewhere else, almost certainly in our cultural story and social location. Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/conversation-michael-goheen-missionary Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:00:29 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/thanksgiving-read-new-testament-first There are more than six million English-speaking First Nations people in North America. The gift of First Nations people to North America is vast, from those who show how to care for the creation to a different way of seeing what makes for joy in life. Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/thanksgiving-read-new-testament-first Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:35:45 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/great-sex-rescue In the next Church Now Conversation, we'll listen to the insights of Sheila Wray Gregorio and Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach. Sheila and Rebecca surveyed 22,000 Christian women to discover what they've been taught about sex and sexuality. Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/great-sex-rescue Tue, 05 Oct 2021 12:42:04 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/4-books-tell-complex-history David Brooks used a phrase on PBS NewsHour that caught my attention. He spoke of the "complexifying of U.S. history." Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/4-books-tell-complex-history Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:40:06 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/best-practices/how-lead-when-you-dont-know-where-youre COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, Masking, Vaccines, doing church online, people coming back to worship, people not coming. . . Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/best-practices/how-lead-when-you-dont-know-where-youre Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:53:57 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/rise-and-fall-mars-hill As you fire up your earbuds and listen to podcasts this summer, there is one you won't want to miss, Christianity Today's The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill. Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/rise-and-fall-mars-hill Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:50:11 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/vibrant-congregations Every congregation needs to take fresh steps in ministry and mission to pursue God's unique future. Wherever you are in your church's life, Vibrant Congregations can assist you in discerning your path forward.  Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/vibrant-congregations Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:42:31 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/can-your-congregation-envision-life If you ask a member of the congregation for a picture of living life together, could they describe the picture? Would they envision that life together in a way that is compelling and appealing?  Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/can-your-congregation-envision-life Sun, 28 Mar 2021 17:33:12 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/envisioning-life-together-simple-tool If you ask a member of the congregation for a picture of living life together, could they describe the picture? Would they envision that life together in a way that is compelling and appealing? Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/envisioning-life-together-simple-tool Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:24:42 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/three-podcasts-make-you-masterpiece Paul writes stunning words in Ephesians, For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2.10 NLT) Being a masterpiece created by God is amazing.  Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/three-podcasts-make-you-masterpiece Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:21:18 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/church-now-conversation-david-fitch-march David Fitch's soon to be released book, Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/church-now-conversation-david-fitch-march Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:10:07 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/prayer-love This prayer can help us keep our focus on our neighbor.   Father, Son and Holy Spirit, At the very heart of your call to us we hear Jesus say, Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/prayer-love Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:21:43 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/best-practices/your-church-council-nucleus-renewal Our council is run too much like a business.  Our council is not run enough like a business.  Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/best-practices/your-church-council-nucleus-renewal Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:44:46 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/what-divides-us-bible-and-providence Historian and theologian Mark Noll invites us into the time of the Civil War looking at the Biblical understanding of the North and the South that drove the war. Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/what-divides-us-bible-and-providence Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:06:33 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/best-practices/unity-beyond-usbut-god-does-what-beyond Father, Son and Holy Spirit You set before us the picture of perfect unity, of being three yet one;Jesus, you prayed, “Make them one Father as we are one” We lament that your words Jesus have not become our life We are divided Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/best-practices/unity-beyond-usbut-god-does-what-beyond Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:07:00 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/have-we-been-white-too-long A number of years ago I had done something, I don’t recall what, and the good Christian and often generous man who was with me said, “That was mighty white of you.”  Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/have-we-been-white-too-long Sun, 23 Aug 2020 22:59:30 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/ready-winter-mini-ice-age Is it a blizzard? Is it winter? Is it a mini ice age? Andy Crouch asks that question in an article he published in March 2020. Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/ready-winter-mini-ice-age Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:08:22 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/real-man-real-woman Yellow wallpaper. Larry Doornbos https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/church-renewal/fresh-ideas/real-man-real-woman Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:22:44 +0000