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115. To Create A House Church That People Want To Come / Pastor Chai

115. To Create A House Church That People Want To Come / Pastor Chai

Many pastors and lay-leaders who attend house church seminar find it burdensome that house church has to meet every week. They are pretty convinced that house church is not a small group but a “church”. So meeting every week is somewhat understandable to them. However, the real burden comes from

114. What Needs To Be Avoided In House Church

114. What Needs To Be Avoided In House Church

House Church is where everyone feels comfortable with each other. But because the atmosphere is warm and comfortable, it is easy to be careless with words. People often get hurt by small careless words, not big ones. But what we feel small is not small in its impact in our

113. Doing The Uncomfortable

113. Doing The Uncomfortable

As I’ve mentioned many times, I’m an introvert. That means I love being by myself and meeting people requires extra energy and motivation. So reading books alone is like heaven to me while going into social functions often feel likes a dreaded chore. My wife is pretty comfortable

112. Attendance vs Engagement

112. Attendance vs Engagement

Ministry month is ending today. All our team leaders have finished their team presentation as of last Sunday and have been trying their best to recruit members. It all began with renewed sense of purpose of team ministry. Those who have a role on Sunday almost always grow in their

111. Two Changes In Youth Ministry

111. Two Changes In Youth Ministry

We’ve just had “Youth Parents / Leader conference” last Sunday. It was a great time to connect with our youth’s parents and hear what they have to say about our youth ministry. During the talk, I’ve mentioned two changes that will happen to our youth ministry. These changes

110. Creating An Evangelistic Culture

110. Creating An Evangelistic Culture

Many Christians who grew up in church or have been going to church for a while find it difficult to understand non-Christians’ point of view. Especially when it comes to how non-Christians feel when they visit church service on Sunday for the first time, we can easily be oblivious to

109. Why We Do What We Do

109. Why We Do What We Do

I just finished reading a book called “Start With Why”, written by Simon Sinek. This is not a Christian book but it is fundamentally about how people make decisions and how to lead them well by leveraging that. According to the author, there is a “Golden Circle”: “What” – “How” – “Why”