I was reading a post on the Catalyst blog (written by Tim Schraeder) this morning and wanted to share the bullets… 10 Things That Drive Me Crazy About Working for a Church We are really good at burning people out. We focus way too much on what we don’t have. We are afraid of change. [...]
Many of you who follow me on Twitter already know I finally have my book collection cataloged and online… In honor of finally completing this task… I have two books to give away. 2 copies of Simple Church: Returning to God’s Process for Making Disciples by Thom S. Rainer & Eric Geiger for two people. [...]
Wow what a conference! I am going to add it to the list to attend next year! Here are a few quotes from today on twitter. Rick Bezet My teacher in church when I was young talked about Hell so much that I thought she was born there! She was mean. It is for freedom [...]
I am in Raleigh, NC tonight trying to gather my thoughts for tomorrow night’s Revolution LIFE group gathering… But I keep going back to several things that were said today by several great leaders/pastors. If you follow me on Twitter, you have seen these quotes, but for those who are still not on twitter, I [...]
The second main session of the day was Ed Stetzer. He spoke on Discipleship in a Missional World… Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity Hebrews 6:1 We as the church are not thriving at making disciples The goal is not church planting, it is disciple making It [...]
My breakout session I attended was lead by Matt Evans from Rock Bridge Community Church. Great guy!!! He spoke on Big Impact in a Small Town… God wants churches to succeed more than we do! God wants churches to work Percentage of healthy churches are low in small towns Impact Community! Changing tradition is not [...]
As many of you know, I am in Cumming, GA for ChurchPlanters.com Conference! We came last year, and just had to come back and bring my team with me this year. A few quick items of interest/praise before I get into the highlights of the day. Our hotel rooms were listed as $57 a night. [...]
We had an awesome Family Night with Revolution Church tonight at FunDayGo! Kidz and adults were all dancing, sliding, bouncing on the huge inflatables! Yes, I have pictures of the “bigger” kidz too! I will write more about this later. I wanted to take a minute to publically share with the world our awesome news [...]
Today is December 31st, 2008. I wanted to take a quick look back at the past 12 months through the eyes of ChrisReeder.com… January Goals for 2008… hum… we will not go there, but will share this quote from this post.“You cannot change what you tolerate.” Florence, SC… Watch Out!“Don’t just plant a church – [...]
No Comments | Category: Church Planting, Family, General, Misc, Random Thoughts, Revolution Church | There are 67,000+ people (as of year 2000) in Florence, SC. According to The American Church in Crisis, 77% of the population are not regular participants in church of any kind. Of the 23% that are, only 12% are evangelical churches. 12%!!! If we look at the 23% number, it means that there are 51,590+ [...]