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Vibrant Congregations
Wherever you are in your church's life, Vibrant Congregations can assist you in discerning your path in ministry and mission.
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April 16, 2021
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Discipleship in a Time of Pandemic
A conversation about wise ways to make disciples with some of the leadership team of City Church in Compton, California.
April 9, 2021
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A VW Bus, Your Congregation, and Renovation
Our churches have treasured traditions. How do we take those traditions into the 21st century?
April 2, 2021
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Sign Me Up to Lose More
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.
March 28, 2021
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Can Your Congregation Envision Life Together? (Part 2)
In this post, we go deeper into helping congregations create a "Life Together" picture.
March 22, 2021
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Envisioning Life Together: A Simple Tool
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.
March 15, 2021
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Three Podcasts to Make You a Masterpiece
Here are three podcasts that strengthen our ministry and carry the extraordinary diversity of God’s masterpiece.
February 24, 2021
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Leading Renewal as Joyful, Playful Children of the Great King
Taking fresh steps in ministry and mission can be hard. We have to be rooted in being wanted, loved and adopted by God.
October 21, 2020
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A Discernment Toolkit With Many Options for Many Seasons and Many Churches
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.
September 23, 2020
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Letting Go to Let God Lead: A Crossroads Opportunity (The Mayfair Story)
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.
September 8, 2020
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Crossroads Discernment Toolkit: Not Just for Hard Times
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.
August 28, 2020
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The History of the Crossroads Discernment Toolkit
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.
August 17, 2020
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Is Your Congregation Vibrant?
Building a Vibrant Congregation is about living out God’s amazing vision of the way things are supposed to be.
July 31, 2020
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Ready for Winter, A Mini Ice Age?
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.
July 5, 2017
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The Kinetic Church
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.
March 8, 2017
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Preaching to the Unconvinced
The best preparation for preaching to the unconvinced is to build relationships with the unconvinced. If you don’t know any unchurched people, you won’t preach well to them.
January 3, 2017
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What Disruptive Church Trends Did You See in 2016?
I recently came across an interesting article titled 5 Disruptive Church Trends That Will Rule 2016. Check out the author's predictions and let's discuss what you think he got right or wrong this past year.