Church For People Who Don’t Like Church

Churches count their “attendance” each week. (Some don’t count very accurately, willing to count people – band, choir, staff, children’s volunteers, etc. – multiple times, but that’s a point for another day.) They count the amount of people from their city who show up at their church each week. But I’d like to propose counting…

Yesterday a lady came into Verve for the first time. She walked in looking disgruntled. (Which is, actually, not that easy to do.) She found someone to complain to, and started complaining. “The music in the lobby is too loud. You can’t even have a conversation. This isn’t the way church is supposed to be.”…

The Vault Conference started yesterday.  Here’s a brief excerpt from my talk today on “Preaching To The Unchurched” … Let me make sure you realize this: If you get unchurched people sitting in your auditorium, and you walk up to preach, they are not thinking, “Oh, good, here’s the dispenser of Bible truth!”  They’re not…

Our Vault Conference started today! Here’s a quick excerpt from one of my talks, “The Missionary Position” — I want to challenge you to think of yourself as a missionary to your city.  Yes, you’re the pastor of your church, but you’re also a missionary to your city.  And I want to encourage you to…