Is Your Church Running at the Speed of Apple? Part 2
Running at the Speed of Apple exhausts and depresses congregations (and it doesn’t help denominations either).
The Church Renewal forum provides fresh conversations and new ideas to help churches renew their atmosphere and journey towards mission in a post-Christian culture.
Running at the Speed of Apple exhausts and depresses congregations (and it doesn’t help denominations either).
Church Now Conversations is looking for input about their webinar speakers for the 2022-23 season.
Vibrant Congregations works with churches to step through the doorway to their God-given, hope-filled future.
Learn more about the work of Pastor Church Resources, including information on resources related to church health and pastor wellbeing, regional and classical support, and staff.
The truth is, our faith can be unappealing and strange.
When was the last time your congregation went on sabbatical?
How does a church grow younger? It starts with knowing how old you are.
Join this conversation on the lies you've been taught and how to recover what God intended.
For the apostle Paul, faith over fear doesn’t mean being delivered from hardship; it means stepping into whatever is before him so that he can spread the good news.
These people should not be eating together. Neither should we.
Wherever you are in your church's life, Vibrant Congregations can assist you in discerning your path in ministry and mission.
A conversation about wise ways to make disciples with some of the leadership team of City Church in Compton, California.
Our churches have treasured traditions. How do we take those traditions into the 21st century?
Congregations long for February 2020, but a recent Gallup poll (U.S.) shows 2020 as the end of a significant 20-year decline in church membership. To go back is to go the way of decrease.
In this post, we go deeper into helping congregations create a "Life Together" picture.
What does life together look like in your congregation? Can members describe it? Creating a "Life Together" picture is one way to help them know.
Here are three podcasts that strengthen our ministry and carry the extraordinary diversity of God’s masterpiece.
Taking fresh steps in ministry and mission can be hard. We have to be rooted in being wanted, loved and adopted by God.
The Crossroads Discernment Toolkit equips churches for Spirit-led, group-engaged, mission-oriented discernment during seasons when hard questions about mission and identity need to be asked and answered.
The Crossroads Discernment Toolkit equips churches for Spirit-led, group-engaged, mission-oriented discernment during seasons when hard questions about mission and identity need to be asked and answered.
The Crossroads Discernment Toolkit equips churches for Spirit-led, group-engaged, mission-oriented discernment during seasons when hard questions about mission and identity need to be asked and answered.
Designed to equip churches for Spirit-led, group-engaged, mission-oriented discernment, the Crossroads Discernment Toolkit was birthed out of a unique collaboration between Resonate Global Mission and the CRCNA's Pastor Church Resources.
Building a Vibrant Congregation is about living out God’s amazing vision of the way things are supposed to be.
At the beginning of COVID-19, Andy Crouch wrote about churches preparing for a blizzard, winter, and a mini ice age. Here's a tool to help churches be ready.
In many church circles, people are trying to move the church into becoming an Acts 2 kind of church. A church that reflects the church found in the Bible. But there's something missing here.