The Hidden Reason Parish Renewal Fails: A Parish Culture Problem
Many parish renewal efforts fail—not because of strategy, but because of culture. Here’s why parish culture is the real soil of mission growth.
Many parish renewal efforts fail—not because of strategy, but because of culture. Here’s why parish culture is the real soil of mission growth.
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Introducing a new keynote! This talk explores the forgotten “first evangelical commission” for clergy and lay leaders.
For decades, we’ve invested immense energy in “the new evangelization”—developing programs, movements, and initiatives designed to reach the unchurched. Yet affiliation continues to fall, and the baptized often remain unconverted in heart.
Perhaps we’ve overlooked the key that Jesus offered from the very beginning…the first commission, the first time Jesus says “go and tell”:
“Go home to your own people and tell them what the Lord in his mercy has done for you.”
Here, in this overlooked passage, we rediscover the original DNA of evangelization: healing, story, and relationship born of mercy.