Category Archives: Simple Church

Driven

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

I’m reading, Dave Browning’s Deliberate Simplicity: How the Church Does More by Doing Less, one of the books I was given for my birthday. I’m only in the second chapter, so this post will be far short of a full … Continue reading →

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(Not so) Simple Church

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

I read Thom Rainer’s Simple Church a few months ago. I liked his proposal of having a clear, simple model of making disciples that was shared by the whole congregation (“congregation” is that a Baptist like Rainer means by “church”) … Continue reading →

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Single Entry Churches?

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Thom Rainer’s Simple Church is on our district pastor’s reading list. I understand and sympathize with the basic notion of the book. We’re pretty good at doing what we’ve always done. But Are lives being changed? Are people becoming followers … Continue reading →

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