Category Archives: church growth
The Housing Bubble and Megachurches: It’s Connected!
The housing bubble and megachurches are connected. The housing bubble is one of the social evils of Australian society today. The baby boomers are largely to blame. Not all of them, of course. But as a generation, they have pushed … Continue reading
Filed under church (ecclesiology), church growth, current affairs, justice
Megachurches on Radio National
I’ve just listened to an interesting program from two Sundays ago on Radio National’s Spirit of Things. The Spirit of Things often seems disconnected from the evangelical/pentecostal world, and it was good to see this intelligent engagement with it. It … Continue reading
Filed under church growth, evangelicalism, links
Churches of Reconciliation: the Diverse Church as Good News for the World
Here’s the paper I gave at the TEAR conference yesterday: Churches of reconciliation I shall tell you more about it later in the week, but I told people it would be up here, so I thought I’d better make good … Continue reading
Consuming Jesus : A Review
Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church (Eerdmans, 2007) Available from Koorong for about $20 In this book, Metzger argues that evangelical churches are consumer orientated and this perpetuates the race and class divisions of the … Continue reading
Filed under book review, church (ecclesiology), church growth, evangelicalism
Quote: pastors as shopkeepers
The pastors of America have metamorphosed into a company of shopkeepers and the shops they keep are churches. They are preoccupied with a shopkeeper’s concerns – how to keep the customers happy, how to lure customers away from the competitors … Continue reading
Filed under church growth, quotes, theologians and other Christian writers
Book review – Evaluating the church growth movement : 5 views
This is an important book for me to have read. Throughout the book, several references are made to common misunderstandings of the church growth movement. The problem is that people like me associate it with megachurches and seeker-sensitive services and … Continue reading
