Community of Christ Reunion Campgrounds

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

What alcoholics can teach churches

Daybreak Fellowship blends language of addiction recovery with Christian worship

How shunned Jehovah's Witness mom killed her entire family

She made a video of herself saying that she was "broken" and that she didn't want to burden her family.

What does Jesus think about Homosexuality?

Is homosexuality a sin? It’s an age-old question, and there are people on both sides of the debate, each quoting their Bibles. How do we know who’s right? What would Jesus do if he were…

Should We Still Dress Our Best for Church?

I’m a millennial and I still think it’s best to wear our best to church. Recently my brother (Jonathan) and his wife (Vera) launched an online tie store called French Thread (shameless …

How To Reach Unchurched People Who Don't Think They Need God

I read a survey the other day that made me literally sit up straight as I took notice. The number of people in Canada (my country) who profess “no religion” is now at 24%, up from 16.5% a decade earlier. That’s a massive shift in a mere ten years. As I reflect on it all,…

Why We Need an Entrepreneurial Church

Chris Lowney on the church’s current crisis of membership, management, and Catholic identity, and what can be done

Green Valley Community Church

ID Card Benefits for Religious Organizations

Find out how religious organizations and church groups are using ID card technology to help identify church members and keep them more secure.

How To See Light In A Season Of Darkness

Maybe you’re depressed, anxious, overwhelmed, stressed, or irritable. You can function in this life, but you aren’t thriving, and like the…

How To Be Something By Becoming Nothing

It came to mind, as much as anything can at four in the morning when my one-and-a-half-year-old screamed like a deranged rooster.

The Bible. Should I Bother?

GQ magazine recently released a list of 21 books you don’t have to read. The Bible was on it. Reason being? “It is repetitive…

Community Organizations Work to Prevent Foreclosure

Increasingly, community organizations are getting more involved in ensuring that their citizens are able...

Helping broken people find wholeness in Christ.

Why Get Involved in Community Organizations?

I know many of our clients are active in community organizations and frequently sponsor, volunteer or support not-for-profit and charitable events. Most of you do it because you want to contribute to a good cause. But, from a purely marketing and practice development viewpoint, does it make sense for you to become actively involved in these activities? Should you be sponsoring and supporting more events … or different ones?

Community organizations to build parent partnership in early childhood education

RICHLAND, Wash. – A handful of community organizations developed at powerful partnership to help engage parents and ensure that regardless of income they can access high-quality early earning resources for their kids from birth to five years old.This colla

Is Too Much Grace Possible?

Religious Freedom as Freedom to Discriminate?

Removing religious exemptions will not promote tolerance or inclusiveness. It will forcibly strip religious organizations of their ability to operate as religious organizations.

Do Megachurches Provide a Better Religious Experience than Smaller Churches?

Leadership Network’s work with innovative pastors regularly pairs us with megachurches. Indeed, in recent years no one has done more megachurch research than us.Thought leader @lensweet recently tweeted “No one knows more about...