Should they? If the emphasis is on making disciples, then there really is no competition. In John 4, when Jesus finds out people have taken notice that he baptized more people than John (his disciples did, anyways), he gets out of the way, interestingly enough. Yet when churches use marketing tactics and strategic business planning [...]
by Dan on October 25, 2009
I’ve been reading Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion lately, and I ran across a great point I wanted to share: “Fix-the-church books almost always figure that declining church attendance … means the church has messed something up. Even though the new crop of church books decry the old [...]
Attracting true followers isn’t so easy. I saw this over at iMonk.
