Develop Community Connection Rather Than Just Collect Information
Before a guest enters the church, the church should think of ways to develop community connection with them beyond a one-time visit to a service.
Resources
Wake Up, Guys: The Church Sexual Ethics Problem
The church as an institution is sick. Some may object, Its not the church thats sick, its the culture! But the church should be better than the culture in this regard. As Christians, our first and primary concern should be the righteousness of the church community and addressing the church sexual ethics problem.
From Reactive to Proactive Physical Security
From access control systems to video surveillance and artificial intelligence, the technology available to enhance physical security measures is rapidly evolving, making a proactive physical security strategy essential.
20th Annual Outreach Resources of the Year: Youth and Kids
Each part of the Apostles’ Creed is explained and illustrated with images that are culturally inclusive. This book would be a great daily resource for parents and youth ministry leaders to use. It will help to develop young believers.
Life Includes a Great Deal of Dealing with Life’s Suffering
While you may not experience long-term, intense depression or anxiety, there will very likely be a period of your life when you are dealing with life's suffering, feeling like a ghost haunting your own existence.
Alan Noble
You have the solemn responsibility and privilege to bear witness to the goodness of life by living despite suffering.
Which Younger Generation Is More Likely to Walk Into Your Church?
While almost a third of this younger generation does not claim a particular religion (the “nones”), they attend religious services at a slightly higher rate than their Millennial and Gen X parents.
4 Reasons to Become a Church Revitalizer
A church revitalizer enters the church community understanding that they are called not to deconstruct the local church but to reconstruct the hopes and dreams of those members still sitting in the pew, offering a fresh perspective for church revitalization.
Philip Ryken: Defining and Proclaiming Our Shared Gospel Message
Good things happen when we get a grasp of the gospel, that the crucified Christ is also the risen Lord. In our newfound reason to unite, the instinct to separate falls away, social media is transformed from platforms that are destructive into opportunities for gospel witness, and we begin to love people well enough to tell them the good news of Jesus, even as our own fears are cast out (1 John 4:18).
Begin With What You’ve Been Given: Growing in Faithfulness
We all like the idea of a stronger, slimmer body, or becoming proficient in a skill, or building more effective habits for more sustained productivity. But no transformation happens without starting the painful work of exercising whats weak and staying with it until it grows stronger, like growing in faithfulness.
