FIVE POSSIBLE PATHS FOR 21ST CENTURY CHURCHES
BY MARTIN THIELEN
June 3, 2025
It’s no secret that organized religion is in trouble. Over the past few decades the American church has seen a free fall in membership, attendance,
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Improvise! A Jazz-Inspired Way to #Reimagine Church
A Coaching Session:
Phil Miglioratti Interviewed Mark Glanville, Author of "Improvising Church"
Dr. Mark Glanville works as the Director of the Centre for Missional Leadership at St. Andrews Hall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Can
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#ReSetCHURCH: Get Ready for Company
Churches intent on reaching the lost make readiness for guests a part of their culture.
"Getting ready for company"
Throughout my childhood and teenage years, we lived next door to the church where
my dad was pastor. The upside was that I could always
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A Manifesto for a Reimagined Church
A Manifesto for a Reimagined Church
by Phil Miglioratti
We believe the Church is not a monument to the past,
but a movement into God’s future.
We reject performance-driven religion
and reclaim disciplemaking as the heartbeat of the Body.
- Not
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Think. Pray. unlearn. Before You Make Changes
12 Simple Principles in Changing a Church
By Chuck Lawless on Jul 08, 2025
Most churches need to change at some level, but many leaders don’t know how to lead through change. In some cases, leaders who have tried to lead have been defeated when ch
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Uncommon Conversations Phil Miglioratti and Angie Ward “A New Paradigm for Church and Mission”
Uncommon Conversations
Phil Miglioratti and Angie Ward
“A New Paradigm for Church and Mission”
"The answer to the crisis of the North American church
will not be found at the level of method and problem solving."
Darrell Guder
Beyond Church
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Is Your Church Flourishing?
Is Your Church Flourishing?
Jim Morgan
Over the last 25 years, nearly 40 million Americans have stopped attending church – the most significant decline in any quarter century in our nation’s history. Any church growth seen today occurs primarily
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A Consultant-Style Interview for Leaders of Struggling, Stuck, and Dying Churches: "Don't Revitalize. ReMission!"
Phil Miglioratti Interviewed Josh Hayden,
author of "Remissioning Church: a Field Guide to Bringing a Congregation Back to Life"
"They don't need revitalization. They need remissioning."
PHIL >>> Josh, what type of congregations/churches are
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Don't Revitalize. ReMission. A Worksheet to Unpack Josh Hayden's Field Guide for Church Leadership
Don't Revitalize. ReMission.
A Worksheet to Unpack the Truths and Tools that Can Bring Life Back to Your Ministry
From Pastor/Leadership Expert Josh Hayden's Field Guide for Church Leadership
by Phil Miglioratti @ Reimagine.Network
PRELUDE
- I ha
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A Step to #Reset Your Church: Clean Storm Drains
Help Us Be the Church
by Bryan Price
Pastor and Church Consultant
I do not know where the idea originated, but whoever decided to start counting baptisms did the church a great disservice by creating an aspiration beyond what is articulated in th
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Prayer for Corporate Repentance
Prayer for Corporate Repentance
As I write this article, once again we Christians who follow the Western liturgical calendar are almost at the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday. (According to the Gregoria
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Consumeranity: A Subtle but Serious Dis-Ease that Infects the Church
Consumeranity: A Subtle but Serious Dis-Ease that Infects the Church
Phil Miglioratti @ Reimagine.Network
A “What? SoWhat? NowWhat?” Overview
{Warning Label: Consumeranity is a Dangerous Infiltration of Consumerism With Christianity}
WHAT?
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A Prayer to ReimagineFutureChurch
A Prayer to ReimagineFutureChurch
Phil Miglioratti
Reimagine.Network
Please join me and other future-focused “reimagineers” in a bold prayer—
Jesus,
We praise, glorify and yield to you as the Chief Shepherd of the global Church.
We believe an
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Confronting the Deconstruction Crisis in the Evangelical Church
Phil Miglioratti Interviewed Ian Harber,
Author of “Walking Through Deconstruction” ~
"Confronting the Deconstruction Crisis in the Evangelical Church"
"Raised in the church, I was always in trouble.
But I wasn't in trouble because of my behavior.
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#ReimagineFutureChurch: John Burton with a Fresh Look at Church
#ReimagineFutureChurch: John Burton wth a Fresh Look at "church"
 A PASSION FOR REVIVAL If you are in a room with John Burton for more than 10 minutes and you don't have a fire in
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Revisit 2 Corinthians 5:17 and you just might Revitalize Your Church
Revisit 2 Corinthians 5:17 and you just might Revitalize Your Church
Phil Miglioratti @ The Reimagine.Network
“Now, if anyone is enfolded into Christ, s/he has become an entirely new person.
All that is related to the old order has vanished. Beho
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#ReimagineFutureChurch: MIchael Douglass: Pastor, Community Ministry Facilitator
Michael Douglass: Pastor, Community Ministry Facilitator
Find Me @ pastormikeonlife@gmail.com & Website for Advancing Vibrant Communities: www.vibrantcommunities.org
• WHAT? - What is the "1-Question" leaders must ask in order to #Reimagine
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#ReimagineFutureChurch; Gerard Long, Prayer At The Heart
Gerard Long, Executive Director, Prayer at the Heart
Former Executive Director of Alpha* USA, minister, evangelist, author, motivational speaker, and former banking executive.
Find Me / Follow Me here >>> glong@prayerattheheart.org
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