1.4: Community
Pivot hosts Terri Elton from Luther Seminary, Scott Cormode of Fuller Seminary and Louise Johnson from LEAD gather to discuss cultivating community.
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Finding Our New Normal
Find the keys to the different kind of leadership that is needed now.
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3 Steps to Invite Listeners into God’s Work
Paint a picture for your listeners of God’s transforming work.
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What’s Really Causing Church Decline … and What We Can Do About It
How can we renew the church’s identity and help in join God’s work in the 21st century?
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An Empty Offering Plate
Laura Wilhelm describes how her congregation’s context developed a local practice of having practically empty offering plates.
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Why Does the Church Need Innovation?
How design thinking can apply to ministry—not for its own sake, but to discover and follow where the Holy Spirit is leading.
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Winner-Takes-All? Gaming Church Structures
While we seek another way, the mindset of our culture is obsessed with winning and losing. Someone’s going to end up on top. Another party is defeated. Survival of the fittest. Yet, Christians seek another way, even when it’s so very hard. In today’s post, Robert Walker calls us to a new way of imagining…
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Why Jesus?
Share stories of faith and listen deeply to others.
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Strategic Giving for Retirees
I’ve always found it fascinating that the season of Lent includes “tax season” as well. Might we use the liturgical time of self-reflection, penitence, and realignment to consider our relationship with money and giving? In today’s post, Dana Holt explores how a particular demographic — retirees over 70 ½ — may give from their retirement…
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Fixing a Toxic Team Culture
Do you have to fire someone to fix a toxic team culture?
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Sharing Bicycles, Sharing Waste
The negative impact of experimental projects, especially in business, is typically measured financially. Yet whether there are gains or losses in the view of the stakeholders, the broader community is often left to deal with increased material burdens on transportation and waste management. Reflecting on Jonathan Malesic’s account of citywide bike-sharing, let us consider how…
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A Gratitude Campaign
I don’t remember most of the gifts I received for my high school graduation. In fact, I’m not sure I can remember any … except for one: a beautiful set of stationery with my name embossed across the top. As I wrote thank you notes for the gifts, I remember feeling as if my first…
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The Great Login In the Sky
The Funding the Next Church series has been a great joy to organize, and I’m very grateful to our six fine writers. Today, our final article in the series is no different. In fact, the Rev. Andy Greenhow ends with the perfect exclamation point: a contemporary, powerful modern metaphor for funding congregations today. Yours truly,…
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Ministry in the Outdoors
A blog post by Jesse Weiss Often, when we realize that we need to make changes in programming or other ministry-related endeavors, the tendency is to search for ways to change in places that might be more complicated than they need to be. Change is good, but we can be overcome with new curriculum, new…
