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,

What if the next great awakening doesn’t begin in a stadium—but on the sidewalk outside your local school? Explore how you can be part of |
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
Read more…#ItSeemsToMe...We Must Reimagine Church
The Church; the Body of Christ has critical blind spots:
-resistance to finding ways to express the unity all Christ-serving congregations…we override the call for unity to preserve our theological brand
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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?
Read more…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
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I finally wrote the blog I had been avoiding for years—and now I can’t stop thinking about what it disl
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,
5 Views on the GospelNOTE: I post this as a simple example of how even within Evangelicalism, there are various and sometimes widely divergent theological perspectives. This is my call for humility within our dogmatic "certainty." {Phil Migli |
“At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a child, whom he put among them,
Phil Miglioratti Interviewed Bob Tiede for The Reimagine.Network
a One-on-One Seminar on Leading With Questions
✔️Bob's LEADERSHIP LAB: Engage The Power of Questions to Reshape Your Ministry
PHIL >>> You are the co-author of "Leading With Ques
Read more…A Template to Contemplate Intercession
Phil Miglioratti
Interactive Praying is
Invite prayer champions
Include others to
Instruct w
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A Template to Reimagine . . .
Phil Miglioratti
Don’t copy the behavior and planning customs of this world.
Let God transform your planning into a new by changing the way you think.
Then you will learn to know God’s plans for your ministry; plans
Read more…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
Read more…There are No Shortcuts in Poverty Alleviation
Generosity isn’t always charitable. Compassion isn’t always kind. Intentions don’t determine effectiveness. We shouldn’t feel good about some of our “good” deeds.
Poverty alleviation is tricky. Th
Read more…EXPRESS THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH
Not Conformity-of-Theology but . . .
Phil Miglioratti
{PRELUDE}
#ItSeemsToMe... when Jesus prayed for the unity of the #Church,
he was not expecting total conformity (the mix of his disciples were diverse for that time
Read more…Pondering the Ignorance & Arrogance of Syncretism...That Infects Evangelicalism
by Phil Miglioratti
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I offer my observations as descriptive, not judgmental.
Ponderable. Educational.
As we seek to be "renew
We See Through a Glass Darkly
Phil Miglioratti
"This Changes Everything"
#ItSeemsToMe… the Apostle Paul has made it perfectly clear we should not consider our translations-interpretations-applications of Scripture as perfectly clear.
We see thru a
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