This resource-laden podcast walks through six predictions for the future of churches. We’ve seen these trends over the past few years and now they are becoming a reality.
Some highlights from today’s episode include:
Too many church members stopped inviting lost neighbors because they thought their church’s cool music or attractional model would be enough to draw people in.
Gospel conversations often start with a simple invite to come to church.
Virtual assistants allow churches to put more resources into ministry.
Churches are now starting to connect more frequently through affinity networks.
The six future projections we cover are:
Personal invitations are really working in many churches
Virtual staff is becoming more common
More church leaders are finding mentors
Smaller churches are using staff search firms
Declining churches are declining more rapidly
More churches are connecting through networks
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(Photo: Facebook/Brian C. Louwers)The incomplete youth activity center can be seen behind the Life Application Ministries church building here.
Life Application Ministries in Warren, Michigan, already spent $1.2 million to build a community center. But the incomplete building will now be razed by the city after neighbors agreed that it had become a public nuisance after dealing with years of its stalled completion.
The church’s pastor, Bishop Adolphus Cast, told the Detroit Free Press that his church had been fighting to save the building after battling through a series of problems, including local government corruption, to complete it. But God recently told him to let it go.
“God answered. ‘The building is just a building,'” he explained in a news release cited by the Detroit Free Press. “Give the City Council what it wants. The reality is, this is not about a building. In fact, the building is emblematic and symbolic of all that is wrong in our community — cronyism, corruption, pride and prejudice and seeking to take sliver out of our neighbor’s eye before we remove the plank from our own.”
Cast said his church first got a permit for the building in 2013 and started work a year later. Problems arose, he said, after the church developed issues with an “unscrupulous…
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