Screen Savers – The Digital Bible Explosion
Cregan Cooke, the director of communication and media at Redeemer Presbyterian, Manhattan’s best-known megachurch, told me that parishioners use mobile devices during services to look up Bible verses…and that the church has recently developed its own app, which contains a sermon podcast and community news. It’s been downloaded more than twenty-five thousand times. Publishers Weekly... Continue Reading
More Anti-Calvinism in the SBC
It’s also the Baptist way to tell the truth and trust the people. The truth is that Pleasant Valley is a wonderful Southern Baptist church that has been rejected by the DMBA because of that body’s fear and rejection and misunderstanding of doctrinal beliefs that are embedded in the Southern Baptist Convention’s Baptist Faith and... Continue Reading
Texas Baptist General Convention votes to cut Baylor University funding by nearly $1 million
Church-appointed messengers of the Baptist General Convention of Texas voted Monday to slash funding for Baylor University by nearly $1 million on the first day of the annual conference at the Amarillo Civic Center. The new agreement with Baylor reduces funding to $1.9 million from the $2.8 million the convention contributed in 2011, Texas Baptists... Continue Reading
Religious Congregations Embracing Cutting-Edge Tech
About 90.4 percent of congregations are using email to reach out to their members and 69.2 percent have a website. In addition, congregations increasingly have a Facebook page (41.3 percent), blog (12.7 percent) and podcasts (11.6 percent). More congregations across the U.S. are turning to modern technology, some even encouraging attendees to use iPads and... Continue Reading
Passion for Churches Declines, as ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ Grows
But evangelical churches are also experiencing a decline in attendance…That bucks older conventional wisdom that conservative equals growth. In recent years, conservative denominations such as the Southern Baptist Convention, the Christian Reformed Church and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod have reported plateaus or losses. Bleak and bleaker. That’s the assessment of a new report on the... Continue Reading
Church Is Its Own Worst Critic, Says Church Planter/Editor of Pastor.com
The complaint he probably hears most often is that the Church is anemic when it comes to discipleship. “Usually, the reference is made to a lack of depth, or a lack of time spent in one-on-one discipleship.” As editor and online facilitator of a website that includes a global community of 80,000 pastors and church... Continue Reading
Washington (State) church will vote on PCUSA dismissal in November
We affirm that Jesus is the eternal second person of the Trinity who came to earth, God-in-the-flesh, lived a sinless life, died as a sacrifice for the sins of the world and was raised bodily back to life on the third day. An increasing segment in our denomination does not affirm these positions.” After six... Continue Reading
Pope Benedict Appoints New Ambassador to U. S.
Formally known as the apostolic nuncio, the Vatican’s ambassador represents the Holy See to a foreign government, but also plays a central role in advising the pope on naming a country’s new bishops. Pope Benedict XVI has named Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano as the Vatican’s next ambassador to the United States. The widely expected... Continue Reading
Fremont Church in Sacramento looks to next step after voting to leave PCUSA
“The session chooses to stand with the overwhelming majority of the global Christian world and affirm its unchanged commitment to orthodox Reformed Christian belief.” A California church now faces the next step in what may be a long dismissal process following the congregation’s decision to leave the Presbyterian Church (USA). By a vote of 427-164... Continue Reading
Do You Want Your Church To Grow?
If all you are really concerned about is whether or not the church is going to die, all you need to do is figure out how many folks your church is going to lose in the coming year, and aim to replace them…If your concern is that the church doesn’t die, then the programs and... Continue Reading
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