by revnick | Aug 15, 2013 | Church
“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one...
by revnick | Oct 20, 2011 | Church
Statistics are helpful tools. They show us trends, we learn from them, they help us plan. They also show us the realities in which we live. For the church, the statistics are grim. Aging and rapidly declining membership, no new families, dwindling finances in the face...
by revnick | Oct 17, 2011 | Church
This weekend has been one of those weekends where it felt like at some point last week the wheels fell off. I spent Friday in two different funeral homes dealing with two different families in two very different types of grief. In between seeing the families, I spent...
by revnick | Oct 13, 2011 | Church, Reflections, Uncategorized
It’s fun to sift through my Twitter feed, the news sites, the Youtube video, the stuff that’s gone viral this week… it’s really neat to see what has caught people’s attention. What is it that they think is really cool and show some...
by revnick | Jul 5, 2011 | Church, Words to the Church
Don’t worry, we’re not going anywhere. We have no plans to leave Sydney Mines any time soon. What I’m talking about is strategies around church growth. Everything I hear when people talk about the future of the church is, “What can we do to...
by revnick | Jun 21, 2011 | Church, Words to the Church
“The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sails” – William Arthur Ward I confess I don’t know very much about sailing, but this I do know: the wind is what pushes you forward, and you need to keep...
