Our Extraordinary Opportunity to Embrace & Equip a Scattered Church Beyond the immediate challenges of reaching our congregations and communities remotely, how will we seize this moment to recover and re-imagine a simpler, deeper ministry for the long-term? What is this moment exposing about our assumptions...
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We’ve been in awe over the last couple of weeks witnessing the extraordinary resilience, creativity, and faithfulness of pastors and lay leaders all across the U.S. and the world. It’s amazing to see how quickly we can interpret the circumstances and adapt when necessary. It...
On one of the Sunday morning news shows this week, Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health was talking about the COVID-19 crisis. “You know, we think we are over-reacting in our plans to deal with things like this,” he noted, “only to find...
This is an urgent time to faithfully lead with depth, creativity, and imagination, and not get stuck in crisis-management mode. What will we learn in this moment about God, the church, and our communities that might shift our understanding of ministry in the 21st century?...
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Join us for a nationwide Zoom call on Wed, 2pm ET, at https://zoom.us/j/173865252. No registration required. Just click and join us! As the COVID-19 global health crisis continues to expand, we are in a rapidly increasing number of conversations with pastors all over the country about...
It’s hard to imagine any church board meeting in the next couple of weeks in which we don’t discuss handshakes or hand sanitizers. Or how to visit the most vulnerable members of our congregations. Or how the peace can be passed without human contact. Or...
For the past couple of weeks my colleagues Adam Borneman and Mark Ramsey have been posting our reflections, observations and findings from a recent gathering we held on the economics of ministry. The fact that we are still mining nuggets of wisdom is proof of...