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What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus?
How do you define discipleship? While the script is pretty standard from a church marketing perspective, the actions associated with being a follower of Jesus can vary from church attendance to political association and everywhere in between. Growing disciples...
Financial stability and the future of the church
Here are the top two questions church leaders are asking: The first is how to get increased financial stability in their church; it just doesn’t seem to functioning as smoothly financially as it used to. The second is about what the church of the future will look...
Before you purchase that church system…
You've got vision and direction but why reinvent the wheel when there are so many resources available? That packaged sermon series or campaign with media kit is looking pretty good. You hear people are excited about that discipleship curriculum/pathway... they are...
Connecting Word and Deed
Christians agree there is a disconnect between the instruction scripture offers and how God's people are behaving. The tricky part is that when it comes to connecting word and deed everyone thinks they are doing it right. I recently witnessed someone bring a prophetic...
Arrested Spiritual Development
Those who you might consider mature Christians may actually be a hindrance to the mission of the church. Like the person who has been at the same church for decades and is gatekeeping its traditions. Or that group of friends who have been in a “closed” bible study for...
Investing in disciplemakers
How do you get people in the church to be disciplemakers instead of Christian consumers? That’s a great question, and if you’re in pastoral ministry, you’ve probably been asking it in one way or another. You don’t want people in your congregation to be consumers of...
How to design a great sermon series
What are you going to preach on next? Out of ideas? You don’t want to just throw darts at the wall and hope to hit something. And you don’t just want to randomly pick out a topic or a book of the Bible for no particular reason. Instead, why not be intentional about...
Consumerism in the Church
You've heard the complaints about consumer congregations. The statistic has almost become cliche—20% doing 80% of the work. But there is another form of consumerism in the church that may even be worsening the problem, possibly even a root of it. Consumer pastoring....
Leading in Repentance
Why is it so rare for a church to say, “We didn’t handle X well. We’re going to do it differently now.” It’s almost like we think our repentance discredits God in some way. On the contrary, it’s when churches won’t repent that the most damage is done. “God opposes...
The BEST way to combat polarization
Are you passionate this election season. Justifiably so. No matter how you look at it, there is a lot at stake. And your people know it. They may know where you stand because you let it be known in conversations, on social media, maybe even from the pulpit. It's...
Ministry harder than you expected it to be?
Ministry harder than you expected it to be? You’re certainly not alone in that experience. I don't know a single pastor who has taken on the job that hasn't felt this keenly. It's a feeling that goes all the way back to Apostle Paul: 23 Are they servants of...
When giving is down
If you work for a ministry that is reliant on financial donations, it’s easy to get discouraged when giving is down. A giving slump can happen for many different reasons and it’s important to identify the right one if you want to address the roots of the problem. 7...