
Change: When It Helps and When It Hurts Your Church
At the close of every season, wise leaders pause to reflect. They celebrate what’s been accomplished, identify what worked well,
It’s hard to believe that spring is right around the corner.
Some of our clients are still getting snow, but we’re getting wonderful spring time weather. The trees are in bloom and the daffodils are screaming yellow!
Lent is upon us. But have you noticed that it seems later this year? You’re right! Lent is the 40 days (actually 46 days; but that’s a whole other blog) before Easter.
And Easter is determined by a weird calculation:
Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox.
Therefore Easter can’t be an later than April 25th.
And this year, it will fall on April 24th. This is the latest it’s been in decades and won’t be this late again until 2095.
So what does that mean for the Church?
Of course, as soon as Easter is done, summer is upon us. But maybe I’m getting ahead of myself a bit. Use this time of lent to focus on Christ — and on ways to “compel people to come” to Him. We’d love to help.
At the close of every season, wise leaders pause to reflect. They celebrate what’s been accomplished, identify what worked well,
Every week families arrive at church. They walk through the main doors and head down familiar paths toward “their” seat.
When a legal expert asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” it followed the command to “love your neighbor as yourself.”
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