At the recent “Simple Church” workshops held by Eric Geiger, Eric said something that was my grand “Ahah!” for the whole month and keeps tumbling over in my mind even now.  I’d like to share it with you. 
In a nut shell it is this:  congregations that keep their members busy with activities at the church [...]

As a variety of conference leaders were preparing for the section of our recent Annual Conference Event on “Making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world,” Vance Raines and I had an email conversation about the five practices.  He pointed out the need to present the practices less programmatically and more as [...]