Too often, we failed to stress how important it is for new believers to maintain good relationships with their families. In our excitement at seeing conversions, we overlooked the importance of healthy family relationships.
There’s a lot of work that goes into building a great church website. Just like churches, church websites come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. But there is a list of required ingredients that I’d encourage every church to start with.
Recently I saw this post on a blog: “The Apostle Paul was never a member of one church and one church only.” The counterpoint to this issue is that, based on Paul’s example, church planting requires a home church.
When plateau and church stagnation set in it can be even more difficult to know what to do next. Here are a few things you can do right now to begin to change the trajectory of your church.
If we hope to lead everyone in the room to the truth of our message, we must start by connecting everyone in the room to us and our message. That’s not a simple task. We must remove preaching assumptions.
Effective communication with your team isn’t just important, it’s crucial to ministry success. Here are seven reasons you should communicate effectively…
For those of us who believe that a diverse church who reflects the joy and creativity of Jesus is a beautiful, credible witness to our divided, broken world—and that this is a glimpse of the fullness of redemption on the way (Revelation 7:9-10)—this is essential work.
Articles, Leadership, Strategy
A church’s “cool factor” isn’t what’s bringing in Millennials.
The very thing Jesus told His church to do was to make disciples, and if people are spending their time online, the church should be there making them into disciples: digital disciples.
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I’d been a pastor for several years before I received the revelation of effective congregational care. It hit me like a ton of bricks and soon became a revolution that changed my life and ministry forever.
