Make Sure Your Church is Clean and Looks Nice With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #37. This small church likes to sing, and they’ve built a strong community that cares for one another. However, this church stands […]
We are All Priests Through Jesus With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #36. We arrived at church only to learn they cancelled the service because their pastor had an emergency. Despite this, we hung around and talked […]
Update Your Church Practices With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #35. We thought we arrived early to this church, but it seemed the service had already started. Everyone was sitting down. People were singing. There were no […]
The Lifecycle of a Church With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #34. From a human standpoint, the future of this congregation is bleak. When we visited, eleven people showed up. In addition to my wife and me, […]
A Poor Church With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #33. It seems the congregation of this rural church has little to be thankful for, at least from my perspective. Yet their service taught me the opposite. I’m […]
Our Past Doesn’t Need to Define Our Future With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #32. Our experience at this church was positive, and I’m excited for their future. There is more to it, however. Here is their […]
Be the Church Where Visitors Come Back With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #31. This church pursued excellence in their service, with the effective use of technology and the professionalism of those who led us. Their example […]
Avoid Creative Marketing for Your Church With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #30. We also attended Sunday school at this church, the only time we did so on our sojourn. The problem was that we didn’t intend […]
A Laity Led Church Service With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #29. With their minister gone, church members lead us in the service, the entire service. They don’t need paid staff or a guest speaker to conduct […]
Embracing Tradition and Worship Ritual With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #28. Steeped in ritual resulting from centuries of carefully protected tradition, the spiritual mystery of this tiny liturgical church presented me with an enigma I’m yet […]