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That Time Jesus Taught Us How To Do Church Online
My head exploded a little bit last week as I was reading the Bible. People often are negative towards digital expressions of Church because scripture only references community as defined physically. I love, though, when scripture speaks to methods that work not only...
A Bookkeeper’s Perspective on Church Planting During Covid-19
Let’s celebrate how the Lord is working through our churches everyday as we walk through an unprecedented time in our country! The COVID crisis is highly stressful for our church leaders overall – especially as they make financial decisions and have to re-visit...
Your Will Be Done
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:10 "Your will be done." Four words. Easy to pronounce, easy to say. Hardcore to live. "Your will be done on earth...As it is heaven." This is something we can only dream about. It's...
Church as Platform: Lessons Learned from AirBnB
Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open the doors. Where are the people? Well, for the past 120+ days they’ve been stuck in their homes, of course. It’s COVID season. For 120 days and counting. Did it work? For 120+ days we’ve broadcast our services, our...
Anniversary Highlight: Westside Christian Church
It is always good to remember where you have come from, especially when you are coming to your fifteenth anniversary. When you start a new church plant, you are never really sure that you will make it through your first year (or 3 months or 6 months, etc) - at least...
The Church In Your Neighborhood
At North Circle, we've said this phrase long before Pop-Up Church became a thing for us. And to clarify, we don't mean "doing the Sunday church thing but just in a neighborhood." We mean loving the people who live closest to you every single day. We mean showing up...
Actually, Digital Church Is All About Relationships
Stadia, in connection with THECHURCH.DIGITAL, is passionate about helping churches like yours develop an effective ministry model which builds on your physical ministry by helping it grow and multiply digitally. “In a physical environment, it’s easy to get started,...
Ministry of Financial Integrity – Church Bookkeeping
Around the time I was 8 years old, probably as a result of doing a lot of money math in school, I realized how much I loved money. Not wanting to have a lot of money, but wanting to manage money. Count it. Organize it. I spent inordinate amounts of time having my...
Five Lessons I Learned from a Covid-19 Spike at Our Church
In March, April, and May, our church staff braced for a wave of Covid-19 cases to sweep through our church family. It never happened. In fact, for the first three months of the Covid-19 outbreak, our church family of about 1500 only experienced a handful of...