Why are Churches of Christ Shrinking? - Part 1: A Left-Brained Fellowship in a Right-Brained World

For followers of this blog, you know that most all of my posts deal with larger kingdom and cultural issues. The Missional Outreach Network has readers from all different denominational backgrounds, and I want to bring people together…

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Gajuwaka Churches of Christ

A) Location and Background;

The area is located at the foot of Eastern Ghats (Row of hills in the eastern part of the South India on the East coast of the Bay of Bengal. These Churches are around Pantulugari Meda in Gajuwaka, Visakhapatnam city of Andhra Pradesh State in INDIA. The Area is covering 25% of Rural and 25% hill tribes with nearly 125 habitations (small villages) having a population of 5, 80,000. In the Total Population 70% people are…

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REACH MORE PEOPLE BY SOWING BROADLY

If you want to have a ministry that is consistently growing and reaching new people you will need to sow broadly with the good works and good news of Jesus.

 

The Example of Jesus

Jesus started his ministry by sowing…

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Has your church plateaued in it's evangelistic effectiveness?



Perhaps, your church has stalled out in its evangelistic passion. People are not coming to faith and your members are not really engaging people into finding faith in Christ. The life-saving station has become the club of comfort.



Yet, other churches continue to grow year after year.



How do they maintain their evangelistic passion and zeal to reach their community and be a transformative agent for the… Continue

A friend of mine recently said, "Instead of going out with a view to plant churches we should plant ourselves in the mission of the Kingdom of God and wait for Christ to grow his church in our space."

I was immediately struck by the power of that statement and started to search the scriptures for a biblical warrant to "plant" churches. I found none.

Should "Planting" churches be part of a missional vocabulary or not? What say you?

PRIESTHOOD ADVOCATE – CHURCHES OF CHRIST YOUTH NETWORK

A Christian Evangelical Network established to advocate the effective participation of the youth in their physical and spiritual development.



LITERATURE

All worship is based on priesthood, for the priestly office is an essential part of salvation. Christianity itself has its glorious Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ, and it is through His one supreme offering that we are brought into saved relations with God and enjoy… Continue

Church Blog Theory Seminar



How do we share the message of Christ in the 21st century?



Please join us for a free seminar discussing how to use faith based blogging, integrated with other social media, as a strategy to deploy the truth online and develop relationships aimed at sharing Jesus with our community.



Date: Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Location: Harding… Continue

Dear Fellow Bloggers,



Today April 1st. 2009, marks the beginning of Internet Evangelism Month.



Our Purpose: To promote all forms of internet outreach but especially faith-based blogging as a strategy to improve the church’s presence online and to promote individual personal evangelism.



Our Goals:

1. Increase awareness of internet based… Continue

From Church Blog Theory

Promoting your blog to others is key to sharing the truth and developing spiritual relationships. In consideration of these strategies, one should never skip the easy or moderate levels. The easy and moderate levels are the most vital to participating in one-on-one evangelism. The advanced strategies center… Continue

Do you have fear of posting? Listen in for 3 strategies to help you end your fear so that you can blog boldly for the glory of God.

Fear of Posting?

Is it possible for the church to change the face of the internet?



Is it possible to use technology to develop relationships that lead to opportunities to share the love of Christ?



Why isn't the church doing more?



Could the answer be blogging?



These are just a few of the questions I have been asking. What questions do you have? What answers might you share?



I have been developing a project/theory to use blogging to:

1. Inundate the… Continue