ambiguity-tolerance
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Reblog – Why it’s good for churches to have a membership course
It encourages people to actually join the fellowship in their minds and in their hearts. It avoids the old “join us for 6months before you serve”… as if going to 15+ sunday meetings is going to really help them understand… Continue reading
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Reblog: Ambiguity tolerance and church size
In general, small churches (30-90) and especially church-plants, are filled with people who have a high tolerance to ambiguity. You can tell by the very fact they’re at a small church plant. That means they would have had to pluck… Continue reading
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Challenge people about specific sins, not vague ones
Asking people about sin in their life is hard. Its awkward, beat-around-the-bush, so-how-you-going-in-that-area, vague conversation. But that’s very rarely helpful or loving for people. Because Jesus didn’t die for vague “areas” of sin. Jesus died for each and every specific… Continue reading
MINISTRY PRINCIPLES & PRAGMATICS 