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Ministry technology can be the biggest help or hindrance to your church and its mission.

Do not settle for longing for the past or even managing what is now. Instead, rise and lead.

Howard Hendricks was good at emphasizing the simplicity of the message he wanted to express. Jeanne, his wife, relates that he said all he wanted to do was “teach the Bible to men who lacked understanding.”

The way out of this unhelpful state for me is to step back and form a larger perspective of God's work in my life and the church. Unfortunately, what takes place in the short term is not always a clear picture of God's activity.

According to the apostle Paul, a richly varied church that’s united in Christ reflects the richly varied wisdom of our God. To cultivate multiethnic, multigenerational, and multi-socioeconomic cultures in our churches is to declare to the world the riches of God’s wisdom in Christ.

Most Protestant churchgoers say their churches encourage them to serve people not affiliated with their church and that they want to do so. But few have volunteered in the past year.

As churches change and grow, they need to have the ability to shift and adapt their worship environments to be formatted differently. Maybe they go from one screen in the room to one screen and a stage display for the band.

Las Americas couldn’t afford to buy the facility and First Baptist couldn’t afford to keep it, but it didn’t take long to see a merger was in order.