Pastoral Ministry, Leadership, Church Revitalization
Sean Corser
Best of 2019: Most read articles on the Mathena ...

This year, God has used the resources of contributing scholars of the Mathena Center for Church Revitalization to train and equip pastors– both current and future – for more faithful service to Christ’s bride. Here are a few of our most popular resources from the past year.

Best of 2019: Most read articles on the Mathena Center blog in 2019
Sean Corser
4 steps to flourish as a bi-vocational pastor

As a bi-vocational pastor you feel the reality of your unique burdens and embrace the opportunities of your unique position. In this helpful article Spencer Harmon shares four basic, and obvious rhythms you can , and should implement as a bi-vocational pastor.

4 steps to flourish as a bi-vocational pastor
Sean Corser
When is a Church "Revitalized" pt. 2

In part two of this series “When is a Church Revitalized” Pastor-Theologian P.J. Tibayan answer two pivotal questions. First, what is Church Revitalization? and secondly, when is it complete? He then unpacks the truth that a Revitalized Church is a Christ-Shaped and Christ-Centered Church.

When is a Church "Revitalized" pt. 2
Sean Corser
A Roadmap for Church Reform

The work of church reform can look a little like a jungle when you’re in the thick of it. Where do I go from here? Where do I even start? What do you do first? What should you ignore? What’s the goal I should be working toward?

A Roadmap for Church Reform
Sean Corser
­When is a Church "Revitalized"?

When is a Church Revitalized? In other words, when does a church from pursuing biblical health to being healthy? In this three-part series Pastor-Theologian P.J. Tibayan writes on the foundational question what is a church? and more specifically, what is a healthy church?

­When is a Church "Revitalized"?

Mission

Paul the Revitalizer

Paul the Revitalizer

Paul instinctively recognized that an entropic principle was at work in the church from the very beginning. Church revitalization was an integral and prominent strategy in all three of his recorded missionary journeys. Without the constant work of reformation and revitalization, local churches will disintegrate into gospel lethargy and ineffectiveness. When this impulse for church revitalization is coupled with his constant agony for the wellbeing of the early churches evidenced in his epistles, Paul’s stature as a church revitalizer is profoundly evident.