Sublime

churches that can thrive in our secular age.

Do we love God and others enough to drop the pretense and just be ourselves? Only the gospel simultaneously provides the humility and the confidence the pastor needs to be his real self. The pastorate is no place for image-managing, for worrying about our own PR. In any event, if everybody likes you, something’s wrong, and if everybody hates you, s

When fruitfulness is our criterion for evaluation, we are held accountable but not crushed by the expectation that a certain number of lives will be changed dramatically under our ministry.

If churches hope to grow their attendance numbers by discipling new

we will likely see more consolidation of churches into medium and larger churches.

in communities with a clear mission and sense of purpose,”

Concern for Nominal Christians of Specific Types