James MacDonald: Harvest Bible Chapel, Rolling Meadows, Ill.
The senior pastor of one of the country's largest and fastest-growing churches talks about lessons learned in ministry.
The senior pastor of one of the country's largest and fastest-growing churches talks about lessons learned in ministry.
“We’ve made everything a moral issue and forgotten that the salvation message is what morality alone cannot solve.”
"We lacked a clear language and a clear strategy. We had become a strategic hybrid of every big church out there."
"The reality is that God has prepared the work, and he just wants you to step into it."
"I'm not going to change the gospel and I'm not going to cheapen grace just because our society is saying it's OK."
"If you are truly doing evangelism, you will take care of the people you bring to Christ."
"The older generation needs to help us, reconnect us to the purpose of church."
"The goal is not incarnational people, but incarnational communities. Eventually that leads to an incarnational church."
"Church planting is the way God has spread the fame of his name and the glory of the gospel."
"While we don’t get to determine the talents which God has given us, we do choose how we leverage them for the kingdom."