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Multisite Comes of Age

“The multisite congregation is the single most profound change in American congregations in the past century.” —Thom Rainer, CEO, LifeWay Christian Resources By Jim Tomberlin When I started down the multisite path as a senior pastor in Colorado in the 1990s, multisite was a radical idea. In the first decade of the 21st century, multisite became the cool idea among large, cutting-edge churches. As it approaches the end of its third decade, multisite has become the mainstream idea for healthy, growing churches of all kinds and sizes. This movement is comprised of more than 5,000 denominational and nondenominational churches that

NACC: It”s Time . . . to Preach

By Joe Grana When I was in school, a chapel speaker predicted that preaching would not exist by the year 2000. He was partially correct: preaching as we “knew it then” does not exist. And that probably is good. However, preaching is not out of vogue. The foolishness of preaching Paul described (1 Corinthians 1:18-25) was not the act of preaching, rather, it was the message of the cross that seemed foolish to those perishing, but the power of God to those being saved. So it is today. Preaching the cross will continue to impact lives, but the way it

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