Why go to Church???

Who needs it?  Why waste our time with it?  What is the value of it?  Why Church?   Fewer and fewer people are “going to church” these days.  What are we saying about church with our feet ? In one of the most difficult studies to swallow, only17.7% of Americans go to church on a regular basis, according to Olson1.  People are leaving the church very early in life and not...

The faith of a child…

Grace Point just concluded an amazing week of Vacation Bible School (VBS) on steroids, called Adventure Point Day Camp.  VBS is one of those tools that when done well it has worked to help in a childs spiritual formation for many generations.  Two-thirds of U.S. churches host VBS with 38 million children partciplating every year((Leadership Journal, Summer 2005, 11)).   Grace Point’s...

SBC…Good, but not Good enough

I’ve read the list of the Great Commission Resurgence Task force and I think it is good start but doesn’t go far enough into the emerging SBC churches (notice I didn’t say Emergent church, so please don’t throw stones at me). If deep change is going to happen, we have got to move beyond the established guard. We’ll always get what we’ve always got if we always...

Giving that Gives

I have read two articles today that disturb and encourage me all in the same. Though we all know that our nation of affluence has undergone recent set backs that have touch every area our lives. We can’t make light of the financial pain and adjustments that people have had to make in their life. I have read studies that virtually everyone has been financially affected by the downturn. Pain...

Great Commission Resurgence

There is a stirring in the air that is a breath of fresh air. I am pleased that some Southern Baptist have recognized the need to engage in a desperate and what could be heated conversation that is long over due. I can finally see some a glimmer of hope for the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in the latest call for resurgence. I have been quite concerned about the viability and sustainability...