Magazine

Ed Stetzer: Discipleship Reimagined

The church is not a fortress to protect believers from the world. It is an outpost to send disciple makers into the world.

Derwin Gray: 4 Ways to Refill

If we attempt to provide for others without first being nourished ourselves, we burn out. We wound ourselves and others.

Gospel Fuel

Church leaders, parents, those who are walking with a person whom they are discipling, or anyone with spiritual influence should help other believers dig deeply into the Scriptures and mine lessons on evangelism.

Leading Local: What Life Is Like Serving Smaller Congregations

“What we have in our hands is enough for what God has called us to do. And if God wants us to do more, then he will put more in our hands.”—Aaron Tinch

Shauna Pilgreen: Love Listens

we come to know one another by translating Jesus in a way the culture can understand, because it means I’m breaking things down for both me and you. The more that happens, the more I come to know about Jesus.

Ed Stetzer: Everyone on Mission

Our congregations are the resource we need to be a force of change for Christ in our world, and it’s time to lead them to do just that.

Alan Briggs: The Paralysis of Perfection

Lately I’ve been noticing two competing ideas in organizations: creativity and excellence. Of course, we need innovative solutions to problems. Count me in for more creativity. It’s the excellence piece that can trip us up.

Natasha Sistrunk Robinson: Why Do You Want to Grow?

Not everything that grows is healthy.

Can I Trust You?

No matter what kind of situation I get called into as a leadership consultant, before very long we will be looking at some issue regarding trust that is at the center of the problem or opportunity people are facing.

Where It All Begins — Shifts to Make Before Church Growth

The church grows up into maturity as each part is working properly, building itself up in love.

Dallas Jenkins: Seeing in the Dark

It's healthy to recognize the difference between something you preach from the pulpit, something you teach from a Sunday school class, and what actually belongs on film.