Tag: Discipleship

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Discipleship, Church Growth, Starting a New Church, Starting a New Ministry

A Brand New and Amazing Strategic Partnership is Being Developed.

Let’s start the conversation. Here’s a few highly accurate statistics to wrap your hearts and heads around. Critical Realism is Essential to Understand! 1) The average lifespan of a local church is between 80-120 years. 2) Approximately 4,000 new churches in the United States of America are planted each year. 90% won’t survive past 6 years. 3) At best, only 86% of new church plants … Continue reading A Brand New and Amazing Strategic Partnership is Being Developed.

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Church Growth

Why is Humanity Plagued by It’s Need for Order?  

By: Rev. Ed Schneider, MPTh It is perpetually upsetting to me to observe humanity’s stated desire for personal freedom is consistently thwarted by inflicted personal violence, cultic anarchy and seemingly illogical wars. The truth is humanity is constantly growing in its fundamental knowledge of the world around them. They are growing. They are slower than I would hope for but growing, nonetheless. Why does the … Continue reading Why is Humanity Plagued by It’s Need for Order?  

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Church Growth, Discipleship, Pastoral Training

The Ugly Side of Learning

The enthusiastic support of unrestrained self-reflection, introspective thinking is the primary goal of each educator. To provide an openly safe environment to experience the process of discovery is the greatest intellectual and spiritual gift an adult or institution will ever offer to a student of any age. By contrast, the saddest thing someone can impose on another whether in a classroom, church’s pulpit, corporate boardroom, … Continue reading The Ugly Side of Learning

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Christian Education, Church Growth, Discipleship

What Tina Turner and Ed Schneider Have In Common

Isaiah 55:8-9 reads.   “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” You may be wondering why I used this scripture passage from the 55th chapter of Isaiah when it relates to Tina Turner and … Continue reading What Tina Turner and Ed Schneider Have In Common

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Church Growth

Hidden Gems of Leadership from the Apostle Paul. 

Colossians 4:7-18 (CEV) reads. 7  Tychicus {TITCH-ih-kus} is the dear friend, who faithfully works and serves the Lord with us, and he will give you the news about me. 8 I am sending him to cheer you up by telling you how we are getting along. 9  Onesimus, {o-NEHS-sih-muhs} the dear and faithful follower from your own group, is coming with him. The two of them will tell you everything … Continue reading Hidden Gems of Leadership from the Apostle Paul. 

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Christian Education, Church Growth, Discipleship, Pastoral Training, Theology, Video

When is “Speaking Your Mind” a Bad Idea?

By: Rev. Ed Schneider, MPTh I had the honor of engaging in a group discussion concerning what others appreciated about those who regularly are involved with some iteration of public communication. These public communicators would include coaches, preachers, politicians, and other individual leaders from a wide variety of organizational responsibilities. Beyond expressing their heroes and villains of public oratory, our 90 minutes together revealed several … Continue reading When is “Speaking Your Mind” a Bad Idea?

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Church Growth, Evangelism, Pastoral Training, Starting a New Church, Starting a New Ministry, Theology

The False Notion of Unity

The seemingly endless human frailty regarding attempting to empower unity will not and cannot exist under the harsh yoke of singularity of thought. That notion is dramatically foolish. Unity cannot be ultimately successful in its hope of longevity if it is fueled by sycophantic non-thinking zombies. Truly sustainable unity is a guided process of complementary discovery and acceptance within a general construct of building a … Continue reading The False Notion of Unity

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Discipleship, Pastoral Training, Theology

An Open Accusation of Far Too Many Pro-Life Proponents!

By: Rev. Ed Schneider, MPTh I am both heartbroken and disgusted by the blatant hypocrisy associated with those who state with conviction that “All LIVES Matter” when by their actions and demeanor they plainly are lying. I suspect the reason for this practice of ignorance relates to three distinct realities of what culturally plagues practically all of us. 1. The lack of personal identity with … Continue reading An Open Accusation of Far Too Many Pro-Life Proponents!

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Theology, Christian Education, Pastoral Training

Watch Out! I’m About to Fuss!

I am sickened by and profoundly angry at fraudulent, hateful and arrogant preachers parading around as authentic representatives of God’s mercy, grace, peace, and empowerment of a resurrected Christ. One horrible example of this unfortunate reality is Greg Locke, a Tennessee based pastor and internet faux-Christian speaker. Without any hesitation on my part I can clearly pronouce he is an absolute abomination to the gospel. … Continue reading Watch Out! I’m About to Fuss!

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