I was a seventeen-year-old kid with no religious affiliation who just wanted to see Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ. I didn't realize I'd have... The post Learning Not to Puppet the Convictions of Others appeared first on Jayson D. Bradley. »
I didn't become a Christian out of my fear of hell—but in spite of it. When I believed at 21, it was after being overcome... The post 5 Philosophical Arguments against an Eternal Hell appeared first on Jayson D. Bradley. »
Church growth ratios are a reference tool to aid in ministry action plans. Ratios are broad guidelines describing general characteristics that healthy, growing churches will exhibit. The Bonsai Theory or 80% Rule The 80% Rule observes that churches will grow to fill their available space. Ken Hemphill coined the term “Bonsai Theory” to illustrate this [...] »
We just returned from the second annual Citipointe Conference where we were invited to speak. Our sermon topic was: God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – God of the living and God of the generations. We ministered to several hundred gathered at the conference on how to transfer our Christian faith and Pentecostal experience to […] »