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Evangel Church: Never Stop Serving

Last year, Evangel started a church two hours away inside the largest women’s prison in New York. A pastor and a team go every Thursday to share a message, preach and lead worship for the prisoners.

David Kinnaman: Start the Conversation

Church leaders must recognize that what feels hidden is actually hurting people, and that discipleship includes helping people break free from destructive patterns.

Hills Church: New Name, Same Mission

Hills Church has grown, in part, due to Marksman—a strategy for men focused on reaching and discipling other men that includes a 6-week Bible study boot camp.

Rob Hoskins: Communities of Hope

If we are to be people rooted in Christ, we must embrace what it means to be a hopeful community where faith thrives and truth prevails.

Silenced: What I Learned About Leadership When I Lost My Voice

We have the One who can patiently lead us forward, restoring the damaged places, healing the broken pieces, giving us a new way to live.

Unlocking Hearts

Over time the church has begun to hold retreats for men’s, women’s and youth ministry—about eight different retreats a year, and each retreat brings the church a new wave of fresh contacts.

A Better Conversation

Unless we plan on uprooting the Spirit from our lives, we’d better plan on being gentle, loving, kind, and patient, and letting the political chips fall where they may.

Am I Cut Out for This?

When leaders build internal legitimacy, their leadership doesn’t rest on people’s opinions, but on their sense of calling from God.

Take It to the House

You want to minimize multiplication? Return to super centralization.

Lee Strobel: Asking the Real Questions

Apologetics is just knocking down some of the barriers. It’s the relationship that God uses to bring people to faith.

Embrace the Chaos

Leadership that does not shy away from chaos, but embraces it, may well drive the change we need.