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Church bodies exposed

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church, church planting, Columbia Partnership, congregations, decline, denomination, George Bullard, lead, manage

May 1, 2010 at 9:28 am.

There’s the old saw that denominations exist today only because of real estate and pension plans. I heard that said 15 years ago and sure, it’s an overstatement, but it makes a relevant point.

MEGA THINKING

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campus, David Fletcher, launch, megachurch, MULTI-SITE, pastor, XP

April 1, 2010 at 8:17 am.

When 120 executive pastors and pastors met in February for David Fletcher’s 2010 XP-Seminar — more than half present there for the first time — the topic of the hour was the national economy and the hits that churches have taken in their budgets, building plans and outreach.

It’s Got To Stop

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church, controls, embezzlement, fraud, managment, money, theft

November 1, 2009 at 2:03 pm.

Howard Beale in Network might just as well have been yelling about the fraud and embezzlement that is epidemic in the church, but who’s listening?

HIGH CALLING

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church, economy, FINANCE, retirement

October 1, 2009 at 10:32 am.

After my father died 20 years ago, I went to my parents’ safe deposit box at the local bank to see what might be there for mother’s financial support. For 40 years and one month of his work life he helped make Hershey milk chocolate and saved what he could.

TAKE A STAND

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abortion, church, community, cultural, culture, LEADERSHIP, social movement

September 1, 2009 at 7:58 am.

I was graduated from college in the early 1960s and immediately got a job in community newspaper journalism, never thinking that maybe some larger cause might require my presence and passions. But I wasn’t an activist, not even for racial justice that was then still being played out in Southern cities at drug store counters and far worse situations.

BOOKS GALORE

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books, budget, church, Communication, management, market, pastor, publish, publisher, staff

August 1, 2009 at 10:24 am.

How did you spend your Memorial Day weekend? With family and friends I trust, or cleaning the garage? I devoted a number of hours to making sense of my den that doubles as a library — 40 running feet of books, most of them church and management titles collected over 15 years.

CHURCH SHABBY

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church, dress, formal, jeans, lead, manage, pastor, shabby

July 1, 2009 at 3:12 pm.

Denim and church are two words that now go together — the denim church. Where is our pride in serving our Lord? Isn’t dressing better a way of honoring Him?

BEYOND REPROACH

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June 1, 2009 at 10:50 am.

My wife and I were in church services the other week and the pastor was into a spellbinding message about spiritual warfare. Just at the time when the congregation is doing great missions work, breaking ground for a building program, reaching many more families in the community — Satan would be stalking the church trying to bring it down, he said.

Ron Keener

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November 1, 2008 at 11:13 am.

In commuting the 30 miles to and from the office I probably pass 30 congregations, each of them laboring in the vineyards in their individual ways. Most of them are small, landlocked churches and likely neither purpose-driven nor prevailing.

Ron Keener

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October 1, 2008 at 2:27 pm.

JESUS. PRESIDENT? Embodying the change we seek in our culture. By Ronald E. Keener Pastors and politicians don’t often mix well. The current election season has shown that — writ large. John Hagee said he’d never endorse another candidate when an initial endorsement of John McCain went awry. Rick Warren said he doesn’t believe pastors […]