Tag: Neil Cole

• Is Bigger Really Better?

  No matter how much I have grown to despise the discussion, it seems I cannot avoid it entirely.  Almost any conversation about church, it seems, inevitably gravitates in some form toward the Bigger is Better or Great Things Come in Small Packages debate. It is not always an actual debate. In fact it is probably…

  Dennis Griffith

  January 9, 2015

  Church, Church Growth, Church Health, Ministry

  Christian Schwartz, Church, Church Health, Church Size, Ed Stetzer, Measure of a Church, Measuring Church Health, Ministry, Neil Cole

• Messy Christian Communities

  As our church makes the slow but intentional shift toward Missional Communities, I found this illustration to be a good picture of the contrast between common perception and ideal reality of what such communities, or small groups, and even church is like. On the left side, “What People Think It Looks Like“, we see the…

  Dennis Griffith

  January 7, 2015

  Church, Church Health, Ministry, Missional Communities, Small Groups

  Christian Community, Church, Community, Fellowship, Missional Communities, Neil Cole, sanctification, Small Groups, spiritual growth