The Enabler: Carl’s Ministry Blog

THE SECOND CHANCE, starring MICHAEL W. SMITH, JEFF OBAFEMI CARR and directed by STEVE TAYLOR is a new movie from Sony Pictures opening in 35 cities nationwide on February 17, 2006. . The film tells the story of a white church in a wealthy suburb that discovers its “outreach” to an inner-city black congregation is […]

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 […]

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 […]

There is lots of discussion on this today. The Emerging Church is defined by Wikipedia as:
The Emerging Church is an incipient ecumenical movement within the Christian church (primarily, but not exclusively, among english-speaking Protestants) that focuses on rethinking theology within the cultural context of Postmodern culture.
The more fundamental Christians are arguing that some Christian leaders […]

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

Carl’s message “Living the Purpose of the Church” on April 17 is now available on CD - you can sample or order it at:
http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/catalog.htm.