As you think about what your Christian community should be all about, I suggest an experiment: keep your focus on just four key practices. For thriving community over the long haul, keep central things central. I’ll tell you a secret: That’s the biblical approach. It is also a good pragmatic approach. Think of the community like a tree. You […]
Helping Christian Community Thrive: Drawing Close to God
If you call your faith “a personal relationship to God” you already know it is true: You should be drawing close to God. How can you say you have a relationship that matters if the two of you don’t spend time together? There’s a name for drawing close to God. It’s called praying. Christians used […]
Helping Christian Community Thrive: Going Deep With Christ
So you started a brand new Christian community. That’s great. How do you make sure people are going deep with Christ? So your Christian community is diving into mission. That’s great too. How do you make sure they don’t burn out? The earliest Christians in Acts had a great approach. They did what it took to […]
Helping Christian Community Thrive: How Do You Build Relationships that Matter?
Do people really connnect with each other in your congregation? How do you build relationships that matter? Imagine running a survey in your Christian community. Two question: First, list the relationships you have that matter deeply to you — soul mates, heart friends, Starbucks buddies. We’re only counting the handful of people with whom you share life. Which […]
Helping Christian Community Thrive: What Do You Teach?
A new community blossomed after that first Christian Pentecost. Not only did 3,000 get baptized into the Body of Christ after Peter’s first sermon. They found an effective way to live the faith together — a way so appealing to outsiders that day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being […]
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