Is It Time to Step Through the Door?
Vibrant Congregations works with churches to step through the doorway to their God-given, hope-filled future.
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.
Write your own blog post to share your ministry experience with others.
Vibrant Congregations works with churches to step through the doorway to their God-given, hope-filled future.
There was a moment, maybe six months into the pandemic, that I felt a deep feeling of panic about church.
Is your church trying to figure out its future? Mine is! We often talk about God's will as if it's a treasure chest we simply need to discover. But discernment doesn't work that way.
We all need to take fresh steps in ministry and mission. An important part of fresh steps is discerning where your church is in its lifecycle.
"More coaches get fired when their teams are losing." Might this inform the rising number of Article 17's in the CRCNA?
This Inspire 2022 session is for anyone who wants to understand how the gospel subverts weakness and strength, and calls us to a more complete body.
The code of church culture can be hard to break. How can we better communicate the good news to our local communities?
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.
After I read her text, I was rejoicing in Tim's salvation like the angels in heaven.
Listening seems so easy. But if it’s so easy, why don’t more people feel like they’ve been heard?
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.
While many churches might begin the process of merging as a way to keep the lights on, we're finding that the biggest motivation for any merger is actually for mission.
These people should not be eating together. Neither should we.
Consumerism is obsolete. Producer-ism is the new reality, and has been already for decades.
A conversation about wise ways to make disciples with some of the leadership team of City Church in Compton, California.
Easter is the good news of Jesus’ resurrection and the promise of the resurrection to eternal life for all who believe in him. But hidden from view is a greater and more stunning reality.
How do we maintain enthusiasm for God's mission? Here are four Biblical truths to keep our love for God's mission alive in our congregations.
Your church's calling is to be a light to the world. But how do you get started making plans to recover this purpose? It all starts with prayer.
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.
How do we see God in light of the crises that surround us? Do you look back to find him or look somewhere else?
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.
Average church attendance hovered around 50% of what they usually could expect in the summer. Surely things would bounce back in the fall, right? Looks like probably not. So what next?
“Why do we do church in the ways that we do?” The possibilities are as many as the contexts in which we find ourselves.