Center Church
Pastorally it is always helpful to go back to Jesus and his teaching to ask:
Sinclair B. Ferguson • The Whole Christ
Our task is to display the richness of what Jesus offers his people in believing a gospel that creates a sense of belonging we can experience nowhere but in the church and a behavior that will allow us to live in line with and more fully experience the God who created us.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
When we fail to understand how people grow, we lose track of the central task Jesus gave the church. Having no plan for transformation produces Christians with poor character who try to do good ministry. Jesus did the opposite. He started His ministry by preaching about a transformed inner life that drives the outer life. A transformed inner life t
... See moreJim Wilder • The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation
Often the deadness we face in congregational life is due to a loss of the centrality of transformation. (To lose transformation is to lose a concrete vision for the efficacy of divine action.)
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
from the troubles of life in a way that only God can.