Re-Designing Church Structures in the 21st Century Critique
I recently wrote an article called, “The 9000 Church Challenge,” as a means to engage conversation about church land use in the face of widespread closures. We need new leaders and new ways of thinking on how to utilize assets in better ways. The other...
The 9000 Church Challenge – 3 Ideas to Re-Think Building Assets
A CBC article citing a report from a non profit group called National Trust Canada (https://nationaltrustcanada.ca/), suggests that within 10 years 9000 Canadian churches will have to close. Most of these churches are from mainline denominations. They the ones who...
What Happened When the Cool Church Kicked Out Outsiders
In my city, one of the “coolest” churches blundered over the weekend. A gentleman with Tourette’s visited the main service in a search of a church home. He audibly tics, which is normal for him, and abnormal for most all in the white suburban...
The Church Has Lost Its Imagination
Has the contemporary church lost its imagination? Are we able to dream, let alone do, new things in our churches? Take for instance the typical church service. Contemporary worship is like ice cream for dessert (forgive the metaphor). There are different flavours of...
The End. How Losing the Last Millennials from Church Exposes Leadership Problems
This would be a nice song to play while reading this post. In the final chapter of my book, Thrive, I tell a story about an old Presbyterian church that invited Darrel Guder (of Missional Church fame) to speak. As I sat in the crowd listening to his lecture, the...
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Author of Thrive, and Soul Coats. Church planter, entrepreneur, non-profit developer, and sometimes speaker. Writer on re-imagining faith & culture including diversity, reconciliation, and mission. From Canada to the world.
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