Do You Let Sinners Serve?

One of most frequent questions I get from other pastors is, “Do you let sinners serve in your church?” Now it’s not typically worded this way, and it almost always comes from a good place. Usually it’s more like, “So would you let a stripper volunteer in your children’s ministry?” Or the pastor who has…

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Communion Details

Yesterday started sharing a little about doing communion at a church for people who don’t like church. Here are a few more thoughts… The first week of Verve we passed around gold communion trays that had cups of juice and broken up pieces of matza crackers on them. (By the way, I’m not a fan…

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Communion Every Week?

If you’ve never been to Verve, something that might surprise you is that we offer communion every week. Why do we do communion in the service, versus at some other time or in some other place? Well, we don’t believe the service is for non-Christians. If you come to a Verve service you’ll see that…

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Predicting The Future

Loving Chip and Dan Heath’s new book, Decisive, on how people and teams make decisions, usually bad decisions. The Heaths write about studies that have been conducted on experts’ ability to predict the future and it turns out, they can’t. Even in their areas of expertise they have no idea what’s going to happen. They say,…

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