Deep and Wide

churches shouldn’t do anything that makes it unnecessarily difficult for people who are turning to God.

what’s your church’s vision? What are you hoping to accomplish? What could be and should be in your community? Until you know, there’s no point trying to change anything.

We believe the church is the body of Christ and that the body of Christ should be about the activity of Christ.

The men and women who made up the nucleus of the church weren’t simply believers in an abstract philosophy or even faithful followers of a great leader; they were eyewitnesses of an event.

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?

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.

hearing God’s Word preached and taught with handles.

I want skeptics to doubt their disbelief. I want believers to believe deeper. I want people who don’t own a Bible to leave committed to finding one. I want cultural Christians to dust theirs off and start reading them again.

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.