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Pardon Our Dust...

1/14/2017

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I'm currently working on a fairly significant update and overhaul of the Institute site. I'm excited about the changes that are coming! As I spend time making these changes, I'll be posting on this blog a bit less frequently.

Once I'm done, watch for a post where I'll lead you on a tour through many of the changes - but until then, feel free to explore the site and dig around a bit. And please be patient as these changes are implemented! 

Want to do some early exploring? The best place to start is our homepage, and dig around as you desire from there.

Or, if you're just wanting to check out some other posts that will give you a great glimpse of what we're about, here's a few to read:

  • Dig Deep. Learn Good. Launch Well.

  • Multiplying Ideas for Equipping the Church​

  • Adult Equipping: The Vestigial Organ in the Body of Christ?​

  • Why I Still Believe in Adult Equipping Environments

  • A Page from Our Playbook: Brookside Institute Core Values

  • My Own "Working Definition" of Christian Theology

  • It's Not Too Late! A Review of the Top 5 Blog Posts Each Month (June 2016-Dec 2016)
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Retiring a Jersey: Gregg Allison on the Importance and Role of Christian Education in the Life of the Church

1/10/2017

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If you ever check out the footer of this site, where we highlight the top 5 posts of the previous month, you'll have seen "Gregg Allison on the Importance and Role of Christian Education in the Local Church" has been on a #1 streak for a while (a long while!). And it's understandable why. Allison's excerpt resonates so closely with values that keep people coming back to this Brookside Institute site: multiplying ideas for equipping the church, theological formation, and more. (If you've not checked out the post, you can do so here.)

So as a nod of honor to Allison's material, I'm officially going to "retire the jersey." I'll leave the post just as it is on the site and will create a "retired jersey" category in the top posts section of this site's footer. However, moving forward I'll no longer include it in numbers 1-5 of each month's top post (even it continues to dominate the website "hits" for individual posts), thus allowing room for other posts.

Interested in other posts that have gotten a lot of traffic on this site recently? Click here to check 'em out! 
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Who Says Strong, Bible-Centered Theology Doesn't Matter? Not the Washington Post!

1/6/2017

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As the Brookside Institute works to build and reinforce foundations of the Christain faith, one of the things we keep coming back to is theological formation. And that means I'm always on the lookout for places that champion the value of robut theology.

I found support for strong theology in a place I didn't expect earlier this week: in an article by David Millard Haskill titled "Liberal Churches are Dying. But Conservative Churches are Thriving." The whole article is worth reading - I encourage you to check it out. But I wanted to simple include a few key quotes from the article here:
Over the last five years, my colleagues and I conducted a study of 22 mainline congregations in the province of Ontario. We compared those in the sample that were growing mainline congregations to those that were declining. After statistically analyzing the survey responses of over 2,200 congregants and the clergy members who serve them, we came to a counterintuitive discovery: Conservative Protestant theology, with its more literal view of the Bible, is a significant predictor of church growth while liberal theology leads to decline. The results were published this month in the peer-reviewed journal, Review of Religious Research" (bold emphasis added).
Or a little further down: 
Outside our research, when growing churches have been identified by other studies — nationally and internationally — they have been almost exclusively conservative in doctrine. As we explain in our academic work, because of methodological limitations, these other studies did not link growth to theology. But our work suggests this is a fruitful avenue of research to pursue" (bold emphasis added).

The bottom line? This research supports the case that theology matters. And strong theology actually bears fruit and leads to health (rather than the opposite). Let's keep at it! 

You May Also be Interested In...

  • "Why Theology Matters," taught by Dr. Jeremy Treat
  • My Own Working Definition of Christian Theology
  • We NEED Sound Theology. And We Need MORE THAN Sound Theology.
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It's Not Too Late! A Review of the Top 5 Blog Posts Each Month, for the Last 6 Months

1/5/2017

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Based on the number of "hits" each month, here are the top 5 posts here on the Brookside Institute blog for the last six months - June 2016 through December 2016. Take a minute to scroll through the list below and either catch up on things you may have missed or revisit things that were especially helpful.

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