The horror stories make many church leaders want to eliminate the announcements from a worship service entirely. But I believe such a move is a mistake. Churches don’t necessarily need more announcements in worship services. They need important announcements more often. Here’s why.
Church Switchers Highlight Reasons for Congregational Change
When churchgoers find a new congregation, most say their reasons for church switching had a little to do with both the old and new churches.
Are your Sermons Falling Flat? Is this Why?
... nothing sticks unless those who listen to us engage their brains.
Parents outraged pastor lashed children for misbehaving at church school
If the pastor in question left bruises on a child's body when he struck the child with his belt, he was engaging in physically abusive behavior, according the criteria the state child protection agency with which I worked for two decades. Inflicting physical injury to a child does not qualify as an acceptable form of discipline. Parents themselves are culpable of child abuse if they knowingly sending their children to a school in which the children will be mistreated.
10 Best Times to Start New Groups
If we can agree that new groups are good for the church, then the question becomes, “When do we start these new groups?”
Why Small Groups Need Effective Bible Teachers
We desperately need an army of Effective Bible Teachers. What is an Effective Bible Teacher? An Effective Bible Teacher teaches so that people live according to the Bible. Effective Bible Teachers create doers of the Word and not hearers only. Effective Bible Teachers make disciples.
7 Signs You Are a Counterfeit Christian
Are you a counterfeit Christian or the real deal?
Province of Central Africa Approves Ordination of Women
The Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA) has authorized the ordination of women, subject to the preferences of each diocese, Anglican Communion News Service reports. Of the 42 autonomous provinces in the Anglican Communion, the traditionally Anglo-Catholic CPCA was the largest that heretofore prohibited ordaining women under all circumstances, and the only one in Africa.
Bishops urged to turn page on painful chapter
Nearing the end of a painful season, Council of Bishops President Thomas J. Bickerton urged his fellow bishops to use their woundedness to help The United Methodist Church heal.
United Methodist bishops called to craft ‘narrative of hope’ amid harsh break-up realities
The president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops called his sibling episcopal leaders to “craft a narrative of hope” in the coming months before the 12-million-member worldwide denomination gathers next spring for its first legislative assembly since the UMC began to splinter apart in 2022 through a process called "disaffiliation."
We desperately need an army of Effective Bible Teachers. What is an Effective Bible Teacher? An Effective Bible Teacher teaches so that people live according to the Bible. Effective Bible Teachers create doers of the Word and not hearers only. Effective Bible Teachers make disciples.
7 Signs You Are a Counterfeit Christian
Are you a counterfeit Christian or the real deal?
Province of Central Africa Approves Ordination of Women
The Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA) has authorized the ordination of women, subject to the preferences of each diocese, Anglican Communion News Service reports. Of the 42 autonomous provinces in the Anglican Communion, the traditionally Anglo-Catholic CPCA was the largest that heretofore prohibited ordaining women under all circumstances, and the only one in Africa.
Bishops urged to turn page on painful chapter
Nearing the end of a painful season, Council of Bishops President Thomas J. Bickerton urged his fellow bishops to use their woundedness to help The United Methodist Church heal.
United Methodist bishops called to craft ‘narrative of hope’ amid harsh break-up realities
The president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops called his sibling episcopal leaders to “craft a narrative of hope” in the coming months before the 12-million-member worldwide denomination gathers next spring for its first legislative assembly since the UMC began to splinter apart in 2022 through a process called "disaffiliation."
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