“If the kingdom of God had departments,
we’d want to work in research and development.”
Dangerous
“The cool thing is church planting.
The uncool thing is to go into the established church.
Why that has taken over may speak to the entrepreneurialism and innovation that today’s generation represents.”
New Churches Focus on Building a Community Life - NYTimes.com: For new leaders coming out of seminary, “the cool thing is church planting,” Mr. Bird said. “The uncool thing is to go into the established church. Why that has taken over may speak to the entrepreneurialism and innovation that today’s generation represents.”
That generation includes Mark Batterson, the 43-year-old pastor of National Community Church in Washington.
“If the kingdom of God had departments, we’d want to work in research and development,” Mr. Batterson said.
According to a recent report by the Pew Research Center, the percentage of Americans who are not affiliated with any religion is on the rise, including a third of Americans under 30. Even so, nearly 80 percent of unaffiliated Americans say they believe in God, and close to half say they pray at least once a month.
The “spiritual but not religious” category is an important audience that evangelical leaders hope to reach in a culture that many believers call “post-Christian.”
Although the number of evangelical churches in the United States declined for many years, the trend reversed in 2006, with more new churches opening each year since, according to the Leadership Network’s most recent surveys. This wave of “church planting” has been highest among nondenominational pastors, free to experiment outside traditional hierarchies.
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IMMACULATE
"Oh!
We're not that kind of Christian!"
Saint Bob
(see the halo?)
in MS Family Visit
by
Janet Gary
EJACULATION
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So cowardly...
how "Saint Bob" lets his wife Janet let him use her age and Parkinson disease to hide himself and their son Phil behind.
So cowardly.
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It's not gossip if true?
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