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Chris Backert

Fresh Expressions: For the Local Church. For the Whole Church. Chris Backert | 26 Apr 2023 When we started Fresh Expressions in North America over a decade ago, people often commented, “this is an Anglican thing.” After a year or two of mostly Baptist churches and...
You Can Turn Pew-Sitters into Key Leaders. Here’s how. Chris Backert | 13 Sep 2022 We all know the ugly truth – many people attend our churches services and live streams who come and “sit” or “watch.” They are there several Sundays each year. They...
Are Fresh Expressions “Scriptural?” Chris Backert | 25 Aug 2022 When casting vision for fresh expression of Church, some immediately embrace the vision, others will push back. One common, and important, question is “are fresh expressions ‘scriptural’?” Any ministry worthy...
Choosing the Advent Path to Christmas Chris Backert | 21 Dec 2021 As we come to the end of the second year of the pandemic, we find ourselves in another place of “2 steps forward, 1 step back”. It’s more clear to...
You Can Turn Pew-Sitters into Key Leaders. Here’s how. Chris Backert | 1 Jul 2021 We all know the ugly truth – many people attend our churches who come and “sit” or, as we have all learned in the last 18 months, “watch.” They are...
Can Len Sweet Predict the Future? Chris Backert | 3 Feb 2021 At the end of 2019, I pulled an old book off my shelf. I remember first reading Soul Tsunami sitting on the beach after my freshman year of college. It...
The World Has Already Changed. More is Coming. Chris Backert | 2 Jul 2020 The travesties that have taken place over the last several weeks have been horrific and unjust. As a Christian, any amount of reflection on the matter should lead to a...
Why YOU Should Come to the Fresh Expressions National Gathering Chris Backert | 7 Oct 2019 Whether or not you can join us for the National Gathering, we invite you into a movement of normal people moving with an anything-but-normal-God and carrying out the missionary heart of the Holy Spirit to put the church that Jesus loves closer to where the people Jesus loves actually are.
Why Fresh Expressions Matter Chris Backert | 24 Apr 2019 Fresh Expressions believes that God is moving greatly through new churches but without involving the established church in a variety of ways, our ability to engage our shifting culture will fall increasingly short.
Easter and Fresh Expressions Chris Backert | 19 Apr 2019 How then will we demonstrate and declare the gospel to the increasing number of people who just won't come to church? The answer is nothing short of cultivating creative communities of faith - right where people are - in the midst of their life.
Fresh Expressions US Year-End Review 2018 Chris Backert | 10 Dec 2018 When I was a junior in college, the car I had brought with me from high school gave up its ghost. Driving along one day, the engine decided it had...
Churches Were Meant to Be Networks Chris Backert | 19 Oct 2017 When thinking about fresh expressions of church, it is of foremost importance to re-engage the Scriptures and seek to discern a biblically and theologically faithful ecclesiology for this new era....

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