The vision of the Free Methodist Church is to see a healthy church within the reach of every Canadian and beyond. Here are some of the ways that we are currently working to make that happen.
In her article, “Is It Time to Revive Art in Church?” Nancy Beach asks churches to consider a creative space for all of God’s people to use their gifts: “Every church, no matter what its size, has some artists sitting in the seats who could be invited into the grand adventure
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Word of warning…this week’s post contains a plug for a tool at the end of it. I have no idea if the tool is good or not (and we have our own stuff here on the website so I’m not sure I should be plugging other stuff). Commercial plug aside,
A wise man once said that nothing lasting takes place on the run. You can’t become more like Jesus in a hurry. You can’t have a good marriage on the run. Adam Jeske reminds us of these wise words with his thoughts on evangelism and discipleship this week: “I don’t
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Anyone else a day behind with this short week? Yup, that’s right Church Health Thursday is on Friday this week! Oops! This week’s blog “What is a Healthy Church” is from Ron Edmondson and it explores just what the title suggests. Happy Thursday and Friday folks! Click here to read,
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This week I am sharing something from Eric Geiger’s blog: “I did a bit of research and discovered I had accidentally joined a cult. Dissertations have been written on “the Jeep people”—the people who love a vehicle that rides rough and gets horrible gas mileage because we can take the
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““Of course I want to reach lost people,” … but I’m not going to see us change the music. … but I’m not going to lead a capital campaign to raise the money. … but I’m not going to park far away. … but I’m not going to risk stirring
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““Wouldn’t it be great if we had an app that measured our engagement with unbelievers?” something ran a running total of: Amount of Time x Depth of Relationship x Unbelievers Sadly, for many, the product would be small, low single digits. It is so easy to fill our time with
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I continue to dig into Thom Rainer’s work on the topic of church health – inspired by his book Autopsy of a Deceased Church. Here are some more challenging thoughts from his blog, “Seven Factors That Are Hindering Evangelism in Churches.” Of course the idea is to make sure that
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As some of you are aware, every week on the FMCIC website and Facebook page we post a link to what we hope is a helpful article. We do it to celebrate Church Health Thursdays – a day that I totally made up but that works. If you haven’t checked
“But what we need to realize is that some unpleasantness inherent to a healthy local church is NOT an imperfection, but a necessary attribute of faithfulness. Here are four bitter pills that you may prefer to avoid swallowing, but should view as a sign that you’ve found a good church home.
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