Thom Rainer: Four Simple Reasons Most Churches Aren’t Breakout Churches

Thom Rainer’s book, Breakout Churches, is recommended reading! Almost a decade ago, I led a major study on churches that had reversed negative trends and become positive breakout churches. I established the criterion that the breakout had to take place…

David Briggs: The Final Four, Travel Teams and Empty Pews: Who Is Winning the Competition Between Sports and Religion?

David Briggs considers the growing tension between church and sports: The Rev. Stephen Fichter understood just how dominant a role sports has assumed in the culture when a family told him they would be out of town Good Friday to…