In this column, we launch a series of real-time insights on how to connect reliable data to Kingdom growth. Let’s address the first research insight from the previous column.
Over the past four years, I have written more than 100 columns for TAB Media Group through The Alabama Baptist and/or The Baptist Paper, focusing on congregations and associations. Now it is time to make a shift.
Brian was 25 minutes late for the next deacons meeting. He had a pre-marriage counseling session before the meeting and needed to complete a crucial part of the conversation.
Brian was disappointed, but not surprised. “It was not totally unexpected,” he told Trip. “When I was pastor of another congregation where we talked about launching a new congregation, we got the same first response.”
Have altar calls asking people to publicly declare they feel God is calling them into vocational Christian service ran their course?
Trip attended a denominational meeting for deacons where a speaker urged every church to help launch a new congregation.
Remember the romantic love Bonnie Raitt sang about in her 1991 recording: “Let’s give ’em something to talk about.” I want to give you something much better to talk about — love for the good news of Jesus.
When your congregation chooses to reach out to its community context or the people groups God has called you to serve, from a Christ-centered faith perspective, you know your focus is to fulfill the Great Commission in the spirit of the Great Commandment.
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