What you win people with, you win people to

New Church Planting

Philip is church planter. His goal was to form house churches, and toward that end he was engaging people in an 8-week narrative study of the Bible: How does your story fit into God’s story?  The style of the study was directive teaching with some interaction. When...

ViaCordis turns three!

New Church Planting

The church I’m helping plant, ViaCordis, recently celebrated its 3rd birthday.  We had a campfire get-together to share and celebrate, and the Lord prompted one of our team members to look back at our prayer journals from when we first started ViaCordis.  What we saw...

Never give in

New Church Planting

And our final thought for Winston Churchill week:  “Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” Whoever thought stubbornness could be...

5% of Americans attend a house church

New Church Planting

I got away for my birthday, and the USA today paper that was left outside my door at the hotel carried a prominent story about house churches. Seems I can’t get away from the idea wherever I go. One figure particularly surprised me:  5% of Americans attend a house...