Archive for the 'Church Growth Movement' Category

Don’t You Wish Your Preacher Was Hot Like Me

November 7, 2007

HT :: BHT

Wanna Be Relevant? Pray to Accept Hannah Montana into Your Heart

November 7, 2007

[satire]
Tried “40 Days of Purpose” and didn’t get the exponential growth you were expected to have?  There’s good news for your church!  Get your hands on some Hannah Montana tickets  and watch your “event attendance” skyrocket to new heights!  Church Relevance reports,
LIFEchurch (North Richland Hills, TX) averages 350 to 400 people for weekend attendance but [...]

Spontaneous? Baptism? Appeal?

January 10, 2007

Last Sunday morning I heard an excellent sermon by my pastor, Dr. Bill Cook. He was sharing a new perspective for a new year, working from Daniel 10. As usual, his exposition was great, but Dr. Cook also said some things that I and other young ministers needed to hear–namely that the ministers we should [...]

“Unorthodox, yes. But effective.”

January 8, 2007

That’s the summary provided by Damian Williams, pastor of Steel City Church (you’ve got to take a look the pic on their homepage). What, you might be asking, is unorthodox? Well, Steel City Church meets in The Altar Bar–a venue that is transformed from “a popular, smoky night club to a sanctuary–in the [...]