Month: October 2008

  • Load and church growth

    I love sharing the load. With a church of 700, there is no way I could pastor everyone. Aside from the fact that I have a life, a wife and 2 kids – it is unreasonable for anyone to personally pastor everyone. Jesus himself had 12 that’s all he can handle. “Come, follow me,” Jesus…

  • DEMOS AND CHURCH GROWTH

    The past few months we have a couple of marketing sales people wanting to demonstrate the products they are selling to us. We would be hounded and haunted with non stop calls asking for an appointment with us. One of the things that I don’t like about this salespeople is that every time they would…

  • superheroes and church growth

    I love Marvel heroes – Spiderman, Incredible Hulk, Xmen and the like. The idea that an ordinary man would be infused with a super genetic code or a weird powerful DNA that would transform them to SUPERHEROES. In a way every member of our church must be injected with Jesus’ DNA.And with that he breathed…

  • COUNT THE COST AND CHURCH GROWTH

    CHRIST AND CHURCH GROWTH There are basically 4 kinds of people in church. These 4 groups of people ask different questions. 4 kinds of questions people ask 1. WHO IS GOD?2. WHAT CAN GOD DO FOR ME?3. WHAT DOES GOD REQUIRE OF ME?4. WHAT CAN I DO FOR GOD? In discipling someone, the goal is…

  • power of a praying church

    – my daughter Alyanna got hit with a virus that spread in our household. Everyone got into the virus with my youngest daughter being hit hard the most.– After our 8k run last Saturday, my wife called me up because the doctor advise her to bring Mika to the hospital to be confined and observed.–…