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Posts from ‘June, 2009’

Why I’m excited about the SBC annual meeting

Because I like good food, I live in Louisville, out of towners won’t know where restaurants are and — drum roll please — I can thus get to the restaurants first and enjoy the food while everyone else is frustrated on the road.
Beat that.
In all seriousness, I am excited about the SBC annual meeting for [...]

Are your church’s ministries coherent or discombobulated?

Discipleship funnel
In an earlier post, I presented notes from a presentation[1] I heard arguing that the entire local church is a counseling ministry (with counseling defined as ministering the Word).
The idea is that every ministry of a church is about the work of counseling, or discipleship, with the church’s official counseling ministry providing intensive discipleship.
Because [...]