Monday's Catch: 'The One Big Reason Church Attendance Is Declining' And More

The One Big Reason Church Attendance Is Declining (and Most Church Leaders Are Unaware)
People are attending less or not at all for one major reason: In the words of the PRRI study, they “stopped believing in the religion’s teachings.”

How The Church Today Is Getting Discipleship Wrong
What if the popular understanding of discipleship produces some of the unhealthiness, stagnation, and decline we see all around us in the church? And what if you could do something about it by rethinking what you mean by discipleship?

10 Questions More Important Than “What Was Your Sunday Attendance?”
Never let the excitement of higher attendance or the discouragement of lower attendance divert you from your church’s primary goal.

First Person: Pulling In the Same Direction
Most of us don’t wake up in the morning and think about unity, but we appreciate it when we see it, whether it’s the perfect synchronization of Olympic crew, the silent symphony of a functioning automobile, or the spectacular sight of a winter flock of geese, flying in V-formation toward warmer climes.

15 Things About John Calvin You May Not Know
"...Calvin had a particular fondness for cats. Legend has it that he would often stop and play with stray cats he encountered while walking in the streets of Geneva."

How to Evaluate Worship at Your Church
Evaluation is already occurring in the halls and parking lots. So why wouldn’t we want to preempt those conversations with a process that encourages worship renewal instead of just as a response to worship conflict?

Leaderless Small Groups
Without more leaders, how do you launch more groups?

A New Convert’s Guide to Christianese
This is a tongue-in-cheek article about the jargon that some Christians use, a jargon that leaves everyone else scratching their heads.