By Dave Winter on January 14, 2010
“Why isn’t our church growing? Why do people seem indifferent? Why are people not attending church or our ministries? Why is our budget suffering?” If you are in any form of ministry, you would have probably heard questions just like these ones. Or maybe you have asked them yourself. I have been thinking through these [...]
Posted in Ministry | Tagged Church, Ministry
By Dave Winter on December 15, 2009
Why do we always fixate on the ministries that are struggling or just don’t work? Why do we mourn some ministries while neglecting to celebrate and give thanks for those that are doing well? These are some of the questions that I have been asking recently as we work at overhauling some of the ministries [...]
Posted in Faith, Ministry, Musings | Tagged Church, Ministry
By Dave Winter on November 12, 2009
A new series that follows John Stott’s book ‘What Christ thinks of the Church’ in the lead up to our Turkey trip in 2010.
Posted in Faith, Ministry, Musings | Tagged Church, John Stott, Revelation
By Dave Winter on October 27, 2009
Taken from Mark Noll’s book The New Shape of World Christianity (2009)
This past Sunday it is possible that more Christian believers attended church in China than in all of so-called “Christian Europe.” Yet in 1970 there were no legally functioning churches in all of China; only in 1971 did the communist regime allow for [...]
Posted in Faith, Ministry, Society & Culture | Tagged Christianity, Church, Mission