Thabiti Anyabwile
Articles by Thabiti Anyabwile:Moving Attenders to Members
One practical challenge that we as pastors face is how to encourage a church attender toward active church membership. How should we help individuals understand the necessity and joy of belonging to a local assembly of believers?
SIX SUGGESTIONS FOR MOVING PEOPLE FROM ATTENDER TO MEMBER
Here are six suggestions. The first four aim at creating an environment where membership is valued and understood. The last two involve caring for specific individuals who need to make the transition from simply attending to active membership.
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Book Review: Twelve Keys to an Effective Church
I am a social scientist by education, training, and profession. I have spent a third of my life thinking about research methodology, statistical analysis, and applying social scientific findings to many social problems and public policy issues. So, it was with a haunting sense of familiarity that I read Kennon Callahan's Twelve Keys to an Effective Church and leafed through the many formulas and tables designed to help church leaders estimate and predict the kinds of growth they could expect if they follow his keys.
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Book Review: The Hip Hop Church
Reviewed by Thabiti Anyabwile
No one can dispute the rapid and worldwide expansion of hip hop culture over the last twenty years. It is a cultural phenomenon largely unanticipated, even frightening to some onlookers. Hip Hop culture exerts tremendous shaping influence on products ranging from apparel to automobiles, from fashion to films, and everything beyond.
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Ninth Mark of a Healthy Church Member -- Follows Leadership
The health of a local church may ride exclusively on the membership’s response to the church’s leadership. How the congregation receives or rejects its leaders has a direct effect on the possibilities of faithful ministry and church health. Does a congregation appreciate and accept sound preaching? Will they trust and follow a leader in difficult or unclear situations? Do they rally behind or tear apart the leadership when plans and ideas fail?
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Starting the Conversation with Earth, Wind, and Fire
From: Jonathan Leeman
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:56 AM
To: Thabiti
Subject: RE: Book recommendations
Hey, I bought Earth, Wind, and Fire’s greatest hits. Man, that’s good stuff! At least the music. I can’t always understand what they’re saying. Did you ever listen to them?
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Third Mark of a Healthy Church MEMBER: Gospel Saturated
The greatest need in the world today is the gospel. It is the greatest need of the world because men, women, and children are perishing without a vital knowledge of God through the good news of his Savior Son Jesus.
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