Current Church

Jesus followers in the first century believed Jesus rose from the dead. They believed in this historical event many years before there was a Bible. They believed it beginning on the morning of the resurrection. And they did exactly what any of us would do if we saw a man raised from the dead: they talked about it, and they wrote about it.

God is not what you have experienced. Disappointment with life easily becomes disappointment with God.

Saying yes to God will cost you something. Saying no will cost you more--including the thing you chose over him.

When you pause and surrender, you then have the greatest potential for pouring words into the lives of others.

What are you storing in your heart?

The language of grace is transformational.

The words you use are the words you choose.

When a church fails to distinguish between its current model and the mission to which it has been called and mistakenly fossilizes around its model, that church sets itself up for decline.

How people respond to what we communicate depends a lot on how we communicate. Approach matters. The goal is to present Scripture in a way that is so helpful and compelling that the audience leaves with every intention of coming back for more the following weekend ... and bringing a friend.

We're committed to making things better, to being creative, and to staying at the center of what's going on in the culture around us so we can continue to reach people. But that produces a collision between creativity and predictability. That's because both creativity and predictability are necessary for accomplishing your ministry goals. People are attracted to creative church environments, but they aren't going to keep showing up if there's no sense of predictability.