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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.
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February 10, 2022
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Inspire 2022 Workshop: How Old Is Your Congregation?
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.
December 16, 2021
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Rescuing the Gospel From the Cowboys (Part 2)
The code of church culture can be hard to break. How can we better communicate the good news to our local communities?
December 7, 2021
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Rescuing the Gospel From the Cowboys (Part 1)
The truth is, our faith can be unappealing and strange.
November 30, 2021
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Does Your Church Need a Sabbatical?
When was the last time your congregation went on sabbatical?
November 16, 2021
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Growing Younger as a Congregation
How does a church grow younger? It starts with knowing how old you are.
August 29, 2021
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Faith Over Fear
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.
August 4, 2021
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Who’s at the Table?
These people should not be eating together. Neither should we.
May 28, 2021
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Consumerism is Obsolete
Consumerism is obsolete. Producer-ism is the new reality, and has been already for decades.
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 4, 2021
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Easter is More than We Think - It’s a Whole New World
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.
March 6, 2021
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Beanie Babies and Staying Engaged in God’s Mission
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.
October 8, 2020
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Figuring Out God in the 21st Century: Deep Roots or New Path?
How do we see God in light of the crises that surround us? Do you look back to find him or look somewhere else?
August 17, 2020
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Moved 4 Ways: Confession and Renewing Your Congregation
Could it be that without confession there can't really be deep renewal?
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 24, 2020
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Restart Churches: Seeing What’s Next for your Congregation
Restart Churches gives important insights into how churches can wisely and practically restart their life as a congregation.
June 11, 2020
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Scattered: Leveraging the Decentralization of the Moment
Jesus' kingdom is a decentralized kingdom. How might that shape church life through COVID-19 and beyond?
July 9, 2019
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On the Journey of Belonging
This journey started over thirty years ago when we received a call from a mom who asked us if her son could come to our church. Today, twenty five percent of our congregation is persons with developmental disabilities.
July 30, 2018
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Deacons and Church Renewal
Most churches experiencing church-wide renewal also experience renewal among their deacons. They move away from financial management, administration and governance and toward stewardship, mercy and the pursuit of justice.
July 3, 2018
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Maximizing Staff Impact
Often pastors are not optimizing this new staff potential because they are insufficiently coordinating and encouraging the new staff teams. Here are 5 supervisory investments that increase staff impact.
May 31, 2018
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The Gracious Act of Involvement
Many pastors believe they must do all the preaching, all the teaching, all the visiting, and all the administering because that is what they’re trained and paid to do. But the Bible has another idea about the work of pastors.
May 1, 2018
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In Dying We Are Born
Peter Bush, in his book In Dying We Are Born, writes, “All congregations, even ones that see themselves as healthy, need to be prepared to die, to take up their cross, so that God can make them alive.”
May 1, 2018
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Great Congregational "Captains”
Every church leader is a good captain when their faith community is navigating quiet waters. The test of a great church leader, however, is when a congregation is traversing the turbulent seas of ministry change.
December 20, 2017
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When We Cannot Stay Here
Whatever precipitates the conclusion “we cannot stay here” the next question always is, “so where do we go from here?” Churches asking that question have several next-step options.
November 20, 2017
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The Church Renewal Twins
Christian doctrine is based on several theological twins e.g., truth & grace, fully God & fully human, sovereignty & free-will. Similarly, church renewal is elliptical. Renewal only happens when churches invest in the following twins.