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What Makes a Healthy Church: Cultivation Over Corporation
Ken Carter | 2 May 2016
Dr. Martyn Atkins once noted that the term “mixed economy” was transitioning to “mixed ecology.” Although the common presence of the word “mixed” allows for diversity of ecclesial forms, an...
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Making Disciples: Sustaining Fresh Expressions
Ken Carter | 13 Mar 2016
“If you make disciples, you always get church. But if you make a church, you rarely get disciples.” — Mike Breen When the traditional elements of parish, church and neighborhood...
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The Both/And of the Future of the Church
Ken Carter | 22 Feb 2016
In interpreting the place of “Fresh Expressions” in the life of the established Church of England, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams used the term “mixed economy of church.” He...
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Attractional Church, Missional Church and the End of the Home Field Advantage
Ken Carter | 25 Jan 2016
There’s an important distinction to be made between “attractional church” and “missional church.” Some key differences include: An attractional church sees itself as the center toward which people and resources flow....
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Four Ways to Respond to God (One is Life Changing)
Ken Carter | 30 Dec 2015
For most of our life and ministry, Pam and I served churches in Western North Carolina, which is really fertile soil. A mentor told us early on that a preacher...
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Three Groups of People Who Don’t Go to Your Church (and where to find them)
Ken Carter | 19 Oct 2015
I have recently concluded a couple of weeks of study and renewal, a time that also included some teaching, meals with students and conversations with academic leaders. I lived in...
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Beyond Self-loathing to God’s Future
Ken Carter | 18 May 2015
The release of the Pew U.S. Religious Landscape Study has generated prominent headlines in the general and church media. “Christianity Faces Sharp Decline,” the Washington Post announced; “America is Getting Less...
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Neighborhoods Have Been Replaced—Your Church Needs to Know About These Two Things
Ken Carter | 13 Apr 2015
One of the key insights in the Fresh Expressions movement is the emergence of the power of networks in the western world at the beginning of the 21st century. As...