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Dr. Bert Downs
Interdependence. . .a healthy church's friend
Wow! Have I been delinquent on my blogging! We’ve been up to our ears in vulnerable churches . . . trying to recover properties stolen by unscrupulous leaders, re-establishing corporate identities lost through carelessness, stopping a hostile takeover of facilities by a group that “only wanted to help.” The good news, for our sanity at least, is that we’ve also been helping some of our healthy congregations discover new goals and strategies to become even healthier.
But back to the vulnerable. One of the characteristics of those vulnerable groups we’ve been helping lately is that they become isolated . . . Click Here to continue reading.
Discipleship in a Busy World
How do we accomplish real discipleship today – in our hectic, busy, tightly-scheduled lives? Pastor John Caprine from Summit Ridge Church in Las Vegas poses this question for our Pastor-to-Pastor dialogue this month: “What are churches doing today to disciple their people?” With rapid transportation, instant communication, and modern technology, our lives have become busier, more complicated, and more stressful than ever. So with the ‘busyness’ of our culture today, how do we in a very practical sense, disciple and train our people? . . . Click here to read on.
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