You Can't Love a City if You Don't Know a City Part 6: The Value of Face to Face Interviews. Today on the blog I have Glenn Barth dropping by as we continue looking at city reaching from a research perspective. Glenn is well-known in the city reaching community (and yes, there is a community working on these ideas). He is the author of The Good City: Transformed Lives Transforming Communities. I have been impressed with his work and asked him to drop by here at the blog. We talked a few weeks ago about the value of face-to-face interviews and I asked him to write more. Here are his thoughts... and he will be around today to interact with your questions and comments. In an age of online surveys and an ocean of anonymous quantitative research, face-to-face interviews bring together the power of information and relationship-building to provide breakthroughs for collaborative movements in cities.
In Ed's initial video blog (2-18-11) he talked about the importance of knowing the people of a city and knowing the churches of a city. Glenn is interacting in the comments today. Church Planting Village. Church Planting Resources. Church Marketing Solutions - Home. How to start and run a local church: Why is a new local church needed and who should start it? Submit Bible questions, through our easy to use form, to our team of mature Christians known as the Email Evangelists. Do you feel it is time for a new fellowship or church to start in your area? This brief series offers some details and ideas about how to launch a successful new church that not only builds up its members but also reaches out to help others. Reasons to Start a Church Your current church is dead Do you find your local fellowship seems to have very little love for each other or is not very enthusiastic about preaching the gospel or serving? Your church and existing fellowships have leadership do everything Many churches have members who simply attend services and do not do much else.
Church politics is greatly decreasing your group's efforts Church leaders who are more concerned about their position and pet programs often resist God's spirit. Sin is openly practiced.