Church
Mark Twain and Old Church Nevada
Sunday, March 26th, 2006CARSON CITY, Nev. - In his 20s, Mark Twain was well-known for his carousing at Nevada gold rush saloons, irreverent views of the establishment and a skeptical attitude toward organized religions.
Now, the creator of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer is getting attention for a little-known good deed: helping the construction of a frontier church in […]
A Church Growth Goal
Monday, March 20th, 2006Just imagine if the percentage of the American population that used to attend church on Sundays in the Colonial times, did now. We’d have massive attendance — just take Orange County, Ca — population 3 million — take even 75% of that (a higher percentage went to church in the Colonel times) that’s 2.25 […]
Jesus’ Large Crowds
Monday, March 20th, 2006Here’s a part of a post I was reading over at STR …
Bigger Is Better. That’s a quintessentially American motto. I’m not sure it suits the church.
In the age of the mega-church, it seems that it’s taken for granted that success is marked by the size of the congregation. Yet, Jesus would have […]