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6 Tactics to Replace “Inviting People to Church”
David Fitch | 25 Oct 2022
Over a decade ago, Willow Creek, an iconic American church, sought to ‘engage’ its neighborhoods by inviting Randy Frazee to do what he called “the neighborhood initiative.” I don’t know...
4 Ways the Church Can Belay Fresh Expressions of Church
Matt Hill | 29 May 2018
Rock climbing for a seven-year-old? Really? A year ago, my seven-year-old son Aaron had the opportunity to go with a friend to a local rock climbing center. Not the type...
How Large Churches Can Overcome the Struggle to Engage Neighborhoods
David Fitch | 26 Feb 2018
Join David Fitch Wednesday, February 28th for a webinar on this topic. Register here. About ten years ago, Willow Creek, an iconic American church, sought to ‘engage’ its neighborhoods by...
Can an Already Busy Church Start a Fresh Expression Of Church?
Shannon Kiser | 18 Jan 2018
I was watching the team set up for a Community Dinner Church. The elements of the meal had been prepared in the homes of volunteers, and everyone was arriving with...
Discover a Historic, Thriving Way to Do Church—While You Eat
Verlon Fosner | 5 Jan 2017
We live in a day that holds deep assumptions about the way church is done. We assume exclusive religious spaces, teaching-centric gatherings, congregational liturgies, and musical worship experiences. The reformers...
Three Ways the National Gathering has Improved My Understanding of Mission
Chris Morton | 4 May 2016
It’s been a few weeks now since attending the Fresh Expressions National Gathering AND: Being the Church at Church at Home and Everywhere in Between. Despite being involved with Fresh...
Three Options to Reach the Unchurched
Travis Collins | 6 Jan 2016
Theology, the “Queen of the Sciences,” had its beginning in mission fields, not academic halls. The Christian faith’s most important theologian, the apostle Paul, was first and foremost a missionary....
Staying Alert to God: A Starting Point for Holiness and Fresh Expressions
Gannon Sims | 14 Dec 2015
Lyricist Charles Jennens picked these words from the third chapter of Malachi. George Frederick Handel put them to music in the oratorio Messiah: For he is like a refiner’s fire....
Structured for Decline? Understanding the Strengths and Weaknesses of Denominational Systems
Chris Backert | 2 Dec 2015
In order to examine factors relating to the decline of traditional denominations, a greater understanding of how denominations are structured is necessary. In many ways, the structure of trans-local covenanted...
Multi-Sites or Fresh Expressions? Which is Better for Your Church?
Travis Collins | 30 Nov 2015
One of the most popular developments in church life over the last fifteen years is that of churches having multiple sites, or campuses. “One church in multiple locations” is the...
Five Reasons to be Thankful Even When Your Church World is Falling Apart
Chris Morton | 25 Nov 2015
For Christian leaders, especially those committed to established churches and denominations, it might be hard to be thankful these days. There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the media...
Indigenous and Traditional: My Calling to Fresh Expressions for the US
Travis Collins | 9 Nov 2015
I was twenty-two when I had a mystical experience which I remember vividly. I was crossing a wide street, heavy with traffic, in downtown Caracas, Venezuela. Somewhat similar to (albeit...
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Church Revitalization [Free Webinar]
Watch this on-demand webinar featuring church revitalization practitioner David Graham.
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