Posted on July 15, 2008 by tomsterbens The way things have been are the way things will be….theyve been this way too long to change now. What does that say about us Do we just sound like a broken record Are we just becoming a bunch of whiners We say…Its Just the same old Church […]

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Matt Boyd Wow! Maybe Im crazy but it looks to me like the General Overseer is responding to this Blog in the Evangel… maybe Im crazy or delusional. You decide!Here is a quote from the current issue of the Evangel, Pastors Edition (Jan 2008 Page 24 interview with G. […]

Posted on June 7, 2008 by tomsterbens I cant tell you the number of times I have heard the following statements: 1. COG World Missions is a, church within a church, they need to be reigned in! 2. World Missions spends the entire 2 1/2% on state side administration! 3. World Missions is out of […]

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Steve Wright Ed Stetzer and The Lifeway Research recently completed a study of small churches. If you would like to check it out click here. Filed under: church planting, trends | 15 Comments »

Posted on November 8, 2007 by travjohnson I got a call from Tony Lane in the Youth Department for the Church of God about an upcoming conference for emerging, missional pastors in the COG. We talked about what needed to be done to connect with this group. It was a good, engaging conversation…thought Id pass […]

Posted on September 18, 2008 by travjohnson Aside from calling and spiritual considerations, what are the most critical attributes of a church planter According to Nelson Searcy, the two most critical determinations the Journey Churchmakes when deciding whether or not to support a church planter is the planters ability to 1. raise funds and 2. […]

113 Murray W. Dempster, Byron D. Klaus and Douglas Petersen, eds., Called & Empowered: Global Mission in Pentecostal Perspective (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1991),…