The church growth models of today experience little if any persecution. The plans do not even factor in such a thing as spiritual warfare.
Strategy
What If Ministry Failure Isn’t Really Failure?
The great spiritual writer Watchman Nee observed, “We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.” Could it be that your greatest ministry failure isn't an accident? In my book, Finding Favor: God’s Blessings Beyond Health, Wealth and Happiness, I look at nine different ways God “blesses” people…
Mobilize Your Church to Reach Out During These Trying Times
No doubt, if you pastor a large church or are on its pastoral staff, you were already presented with the reality that groups larger than 200 people have been banned for the foreseeable future in some areas. Then more recently the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has moved to discourage meetings of fifty or more.…
Tech is Benign, Right? (Well, Not So Fast)
Tech is benign, right? Wrong. As an article from The New York Times put it: “The medical profession has an ethic: First, do no harm. Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for forgiveness later.” As a result, Harvard University and M.I.T. are offering a new course on the ethics and regulation of artificial intelligence…
4 Reasons to Preach through Colossians
“The struggle is real.” You may have heard that phrase. It’s used to convey the difficulty of an unseen burden. It’s also used ironically at times to highlight “first-world problems.” When it comes to our job as preachers the struggle is real. We say with Paul, “I want you to know how great a struggle I…
How to Use Facebook for Church Planting
Last year it became apparent that God was calling my wife and I to a new adventure. We were being asked to start a new church in Mesquite Nv. This was not my first church plant, I have done 2 others, but it was the first one I was planning that I really didn’t have connections…
