The Enabler: Carl’s Ministry Blog

Our post quoting Andrew Strom is stirring a lot of interest. Let me carry the issue further by looking at the church attendance statistics by generation group. Generational definitions vary with the research, so we will define some boundaries here for our purposes.
Builders - Born 1926-1945
These are the people that built the institutions […]

Here is a VERY provacative book review of two books by Andrew Strom, a New Zealander:
BARNA’s ‘REVOLUTION’ - A Review by Andrew Strom.
2005 has seen the release of two of the most important and provocative books for the Western church in years. I am referring to James Rutz’s ‘MEGASHIFT’ and now George Barna’s ‘REVOLUTION’.
Even the […]

As you may be aware, Dr. Reggie McNeal –pastor, author, leadership developer for South Carolina Baptist Convention –is coming to the Greater Portland (OR) area to facilitate a two-day workshop tackling the “six tough questions facing the church.” Others who know and have read Reggie are saying of him: ” …he equips to make […]

Want to see your church grow both spiritually and physically? So often we do this with secular and rational logic - look for what works and copy that. It is called stereotyping. You see a church growing using a seeker model, copy that. One leader in church consulting told me that only 2% of the […]

Here’s a great blog post on the state of the church today:
http://www.nextreformation.com/2005/06/state-of-church-2005.html

We live in a time where change is exploding dramatically. The Web (which hardly existed 10 years ago) is as necessary to most of us as the telephone. Those blogs on the web (some 2 dozen in 1999) now number over 11 million. My car is made in Japan; my next television will be made […]

Hebrews 11 tells us Abraham set out looking for a city whose foundation, builder, and maker was God. What was this city like that Abraham was looking for?
We know that Man had intimacy with God in the Garden. God created Man, loved him (and her), and this was a special place. Abraham (Hebrews 11:8) was […]

If you are any type of organization (and we are generally talking about a church or parachurch organization here), you should give serious consideration to how people enter your organization. What are your entry points? For a church, it might be the worship service, a children’s Sunday School, small group meetings in homes - what […]

If you pastor a church or lead a parachurch organization, this post is critical for you. Today, it is VERY important that you put down a strong and clear vision that others can relate to and follow. In all of the largest churches in my city, the pastor leads from the pulpit each Sunday with […]

What is the world’s fastest growing religion? Think it’s Islam? Think again. This author makes a stunning case that the worlds’ fastest growing religion is evangelical Christianity. I’ve done enough International travel to see what he’s talking about and I believe him. See what he thinks is the reason.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44083