New Approach to Evangelism

Based on extensive polling of our target audience (I asked my daughter) and market research (I googled it), we are adopting a new evangelistic strategy. Effectively immediately, everyone should sell their practical vehicles and replace them with custom conversion vans - modeled below.

This should really help us reach out.

The Regionalization of the Local Church

Down the street from my house, they are building a Lowe’s. This would not be a big deal if it weren’t for the fact that we already have a Loew’s. We also have two Home Depots, three Wal-marts, two Targets, three Hannaford’s supermarkets and at least fifty Dunkin’ Donuts. (I’m not kidding [...]

Ed Stetzer on Preachiargism

The article is Ed’s, but the new word is mine.
PREACH + PLAGIARISM = PREACHIARGISM
It is an epidemic in my opinion. There are a lot of pastors who are so busy doing everything except studying God’s Word that they rely on others’ messages.
There’s nothing wrong with vision casting or leadership or management or going to [...]

How?

134,000 dead in Myanmar because of a cyclone.
Up to a million more will die from disease.

34,000 dead in China because of an earthquake.
Who knows how many bodies are still buried in the rubble?

And that has just been this month.
How many of us have even made any more than a passing thought about these people dying [...]

Portable Atari 2600

I was doing some research to get ready for our upcoming “Man Day” and I happened upon this guy who builds portable Atari 2600 systems.  This is pure genius.

Two Unrelated Thoughts

First, I am almost done with The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. I watched the movie a couple of weeks ago, and I was so astounded by the inaccuracy of the film that I was certain the book could not be as bad. It is.

There are so many historical inaccuracies and myths [...]

What I’ve Been Up To

Hey readers:

Just wanted to let you know. I haven’t forgotten about my blog. We’ve been setting up our temporary church website on wordpress, and it has consumed most of my computer time.

So, head on over and check it out.

www.heritagemanchester.org

What the heck is DISCIPLESHIP?

This may be a pet-peeve of mine, but I find myself endlessly frustrated by the words that Christians have invented – this little private language we have. Sometimes these words convey huge ideas (like the word Trinity which has been a part of our faith since the 4th century although it does not appear [...]

Clergification

A great article from Ed Stetzer - a guy who spends a lot of time asking the question “why?” when it comes to the way church is done. It includes some stuff from Neil Cole, author of Organic Church which is a necessary read for those looking to get into “professional” ministry.
It is a [...]

Hey is the Church Where They Have Keg Parties?

It happens all too often. Someone visits our church, and some Christian they know feels it necessary to inform them of our church’s “liberalism.” Then we get to have these discussions about what Heritage’s position is on a list of secondary issues:

Drinking - “I heard that church lets people drink. They even [...]