3 Ways to Get More Invitations in Your Church

3 Ways to Get More Invitations in Your Church

Let’s be clear, inviting someone to church isn’t necessarily the same thing as sharing the gospel with them. And attending a church does not equate to having a transformative relationship with Jesus. There are plenty of people who attend churches all over the world...
3 Ways to Get More Invitations in Your Church

The Sacramental Nature of the Church

If a sacrament is a means of grace, or to improve upon an Augustinian idea, a visible sign of both invisible and visible grace, how might the church be sacramental?  This is a question I have long been wrestling with and the suggestion I made in my dissertation was...
3 Ways to Get More Invitations in Your Church

Backing Up, Building Slow, & Shaping Culture

I am going to be celebrating my six month anniversary as a pastor at the Red Bluff Vineyard in about a week. Wow, time has flown by and I am still absolutely loving the city, the church, and the trout fishing all that surrounds us. That being said, the last six months...