Why Church Planters Should Care About Church Membership
I want to focus on just one aspect of how Scripture talks about the church—the images of the church—and consider how these metaphors support and inform our understanding church membership.
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Leadership and Friendship – What Church Planters Need Most
What did friendship mean to me during my years as a pastor? What is your experience at the intersection of leadership and friendship?
Unhealthy Dependencies: 3 Ways to Avoid Nurturing Them
Sometimes we solve people’s problems by giving them answers instead of fostering insight. These choices are unhealthy dependencies.
9 Ways Christian Ego Prevents You From Experiencing God
Why don’t more Christians, myself included, look more like Jesus? Ego. Christian ego.
Leaving Ministry: When a Secular Job Looks Inviting To A Pastor
Everyone thinks about leaving ministry. I’ve been there. I know pastors and staff members who are there now. And, I’ve known leaders who actually took this route. It happens.
Mobile Gear Your Church Can’t Do Without
Not every church needs to sound and look like a Taylor Swift concert. In fact, a laid-back, acoustic approach for a mobile church might actually provide an authentic vibe that many seekers would find attractive.
Avoid the Leadership “Death Spiral”
An aviation term called a death spiral describes what can happen to a plane in nighttime or poor flying conditions when a pilot loses his sense of the plane’s horizontal orientation. In ministry, leaders can often get caught in a similar downward spiral.
We are On the Same Team
The second we begin to compete with one another, we lose. The second we begin to compete together with one another, Jesus wins.
5 Reasons You *Really* Need To Slow Down
Hurry sickness is defined as “a continuous struggle to accomplish more things and participate in more events in less time, frequently in the face of opposition, real or imagined, from other people.“
Ministry Success Might Mean “Just One More”
As you’re at work, you can live by the just one more mindset. When you think you’ve reached ministry success, is there just one more thing you can do to make it even better?
