It’s Sunday afternoon, or night, or Monday morning; and you are relaxing. The weekend services (or gatherings, or whatever you call them) are over, and you finally feel like you can breathe and sit down again without having a million things flying through your head. Until … oh yeah … you realize that next Sunday …
Earlier this year during a Saturday setup and rehearsal for our Sunday worship gatherings, I received news that one of my brother’s best friends had to be rushed to the hospital. He was 36, fit, in the prime of his life, a father, and a strong male presence in his church. Within two hours, he …
The word, “culture”, has been defined as a “way of life” for a particular group of people. Your church currently has a culture. You might not like it, but it’s there. It has developed over years (or months, if it’s a new church) because of big or little decisions, programs, and people that have come …