Deep and Wide

If we, or the people in our churches, ever get to the place where we are willing to make what we have available to God, amazing things will happen. And after the dust settles, everybody’s faith will be bigger. Our confidence will increase. We will experience Emmanuel — God with us.

It is completely false that churches must sacrifice quality to get quantity, must artificially choose between evangelism and discipleship, or cannot have depth and growth at the same time.

Craig Groeschel says: “To reach people no one else is reaching, we must do things no one else is doing.”

We need not discourage those who seek natural causes and solutions. For some, that’s the path that will eventually lead them to their Creator.

The desire to create order from chaos is a vestige of the thumbprint of God on our souls.

When you look at the stage, what comes to mind? What concerns you? What do you wish you knew? What do you hope doesn’t happen? What would make you more comfortable right now? What information would you like to see pop up on the screen?

Those bringing children can even register them online so that when they show up at check-in, somebody will actually be expecting them.

Presentation is what determines interest. Content is often secondary.

When a church fails to distinguish between its current model and the mission to which it has been called and mistakenly fossilizes around its model, that church sets itself up for decline.