"Whether counseling, preaching, witnessing, or parenting, all Christian ministry ought to be done with profound dependence on God. We desperately need supernatural power. Understanding this changes everything." Jake serves in the church’s counseling ministry. He meets weekly with a young man who has a porn problem. They read Scripture and pray together. The counselee feels…
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Insecurity in Leadership – 5 Ways to Face Your Fears
This article developed after talking with a young pastor about insecurity in leadership. He was overwhelmed with the responsibility he’d been given. It was his first church out of seminary. His church expects a lot from him – leading the church, preaching great messages, visiting the sick (and the well), managing a budget, and seeing…
Eating With Sinners: the Jesus Model
In the gospels, eating with Jesus was surprisingly simple, and a great challenge to church planters today. Surely Jesus believed that prostitutes were sinners, yet he welcomed them to his table. He ate and drank with them.Surely Jesus understood that tax collectors, betrayed their countrymen by helping the brutal Roman occupiers in his homeland, yet…
Tony Morgan & Paul Alexander on Multisite Trends, 2020
Over the course of the past decade, I’ve talked a lot about multisite trends in church plating. If you dig around on my site, you’ll find no shortage of content on all multisite trends. Recently, Tony Morgan, the founder and lead strategist for the Unstuck Group, and I had a conversation about some things we’re…
Planting Churches in a College Town: 3 Reasons
Here at the SummitChurch we have an audacious goal of planting 1,000 churches by 2050. (By God’s grace, we have already planted 298!) One of the most bittersweet realities of planting churches is sending out your best leaders. One of the greatest benefits is getting to learn from them along the way. So we decided…
5 Ways To Deal With Insecurity as a Pastor
This post developed after talking with a young pastor overwhelmed with the responsibility he’s been given. It was his first church out of seminary. His church expects a lot from him – leading the church, preaching great messages, visiting the sick (and the well), managing a budget, and seeing the baptistry consistently in use –…
