outreach

March 7, 2019

Why Fewer People Belong to Church Today: New Research Findings

We don’t need “change for change’s sake” just to appease the culture, but maybe the bathwater for the baby does need to be checked.
May 26, 2017

What Post-Christian Thinking People Want: 8) Personal Problem-Solving

“I got problems.  You’ve got problems.  All God’s children got problems.”  It seems that problems and difficulties are a common denominator in the human experience.  But it is how those problems are addressed and resolved that gives Christians enormous opportunities for gospel witness and persuasive leverage towards post-Christian thinking people. A generation or two ago, our western society found many answers to their life problems either in their own nuclear family, broader family, or close-knit neighborhood relationships.  Those were the days when far more marriages and families were kept intact, and where people received “community-wisdom” to the life issues challenging them. […]