Something foundational has changed in local church life, the Great Recession has simply accelerated the pattern. Let me offer suggestions about church budgets in the future. First the past Church budgets vary greatly from congregation to congregation. A typical congregation’s budget tends to fall into several categories as follows: 50% personnel 20% buildings [...]
Go to post pageA new future began to emerge for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in Fort Worth, Texas June 20-22, 2012. The retirement of long-time Coordinator Dan Vestal was front and center throughout the meeting. Add to this the retirement of Terry Hamrick and the return to the classroom of Rob Nash (and the departure of still [...]
Go to post pageI debated writing this blog: the topic is a bit afield for me. But then, I said, “Why not?” So, I sat down this morning and pecked-out this blog, of my own free choice. I write in response to Jerry A. Coyne’s article “Why you don’t really have free will” which appeared on USA Today’s [...]
Go to post pageBrian McLaren was Skyped into a conversation with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia’s spring meeting. In his comments, he suggested churches are going to get larger and smaller in the coming decades. In the age of Walmart, Target, and Costco, American cultural presses churches toward big and small: it is either a church providing [...]
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