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Behind the Decline: Unraveling the Forgotten Reasons of Fading Neighborhood Churches
No doubt you’ve heard the phrase, “There goes the neighborhood.” Historically, it has been associated with ethnic minorities moving into white neighborhoods. I don’t believe most people use the phrase today in such a way. However, during the civil rights movement and the following decades, many white neighborhood churches changed locations, often moving to the…
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4 Key Characteristics of Missional Congregations
Congregations that want to move forward and live more missionally need to understand and embody four key characteristics, says F. Douglas Powe, director of the Lewis Center and the James C. Logan Chair in Evangelism (an E. Stanley Jones Professorship) at Wesley Theological Seminary. Missional congregations must be connected to their context, bound as a […]
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The 5 P’s of Sustainability for Small Churches
Rebekah Simon-Peter says small churches cannot succeed by emulating the megachurch model of programming for every stage of life. She believes that five P’s — people, prayer, provision, partnership, and presence — are key to the sustainability of smaller churches. To celebrate the Lewis Center’s anniversary, we are highlighting Leading Articles — some of our […]
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A Bible Shaped by Trauma
Dr. David M. Carr (Union Theological Seminary, New York) is a leading scholar on the textual formation of the Hebrew Bible. His books include: Holy Resilience: The Bible’s Traumatic Origins; The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruct…
Four Reasons Why Church Giving Is Up While Attendance Is Down
The median attendance of a church in 2023 is 60, down from 65 in 2020. That’s the bad news. But giving is up. That is the good news. Giving in congregation jumped significantly, from a median of about $120,000 in 2020 to $170,000 in 2023. That is an increase of 42% over the past three…
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WHAT is a Pentecostal Monastery?
Daniel 11:37: He will show no regard for the gods of his ancestors or for the one desired by women In a passage that…
Why does Jesus’ wording of the Shema include the addition of ‘and with all your mind?’
The vast majority of translations of Deuteronomy 6:4-5 read something like this:
“Hear, O Israel, YHWH is our god; YHWH is one. And thou shalt love YHWH thy god with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”
Assu…
Podcast Episode #006: Three Phases of the Spiritual Life: Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction
The spiritual journey we’re all on, whether we asked to be on this journey or not, is anything but simple. I see a life of faith unfolding in at least three movements.
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In 1 Corinthians 1:1, is Paul a “called-apostle” or “called to be an apostle”?
(1 Corinthians 1:1) Παῦλος κλητὸς ἀπόστολος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ διὰ θελήματος θεοῦ καὶ Σωσθένης ὁ ἀδελφὸς
(KJV) Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
Note that “to be” is added in …