Breaking Church-Growth Barriers: Build a Bigger Leadership Table
Ed Stetzer: “Our goals must reflect a community of making disciples and exerting cultural influence.”
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Church Planting Shifts, Part 3: Preparing Our People for Witness
"If we are to succeed in this new, more secular space, we need to do more than simply acknowledge this shift."
Church Planting Shifts, Part 2: From Nominal to Secular
"Our approach needs to change for there to be significant traction in planting movements within a largely secular society."
Church Planting Shifts, Part 1: The Launch
"Church planters tend to think that their individual and local church planting model is the norm globally. But that’s not the case."
3 Keys to Protecting Your Leadership Credibility
"A leader who has wasted his or her influence is a leader who is putting out fires instead of starting fires under people."
A Note to 20-Something Church Leaders
“Working in a church setting will always involve leading alongside others who are not like you.”
Church, It’s Time to Wake up to the Plight of the ‘Other’
"May we preach pro-life from conception to death: pro-people—pro-refugee, pro-homeless, pro-exile."
Fellow Christians, It’s Time to Speak up for Refugees
"There is no more critical time than now for God’s people to turn toward the helpless, the homeless and the broken."
How Repealing the Affordable Care Act May Hurt Small-Church Pastors
"Our call for change may be good, but let’s remember that change frequently comes with a high price."
3 Church Planting Trends That Need to Die
"We must aim to plant churches for the glory of God and the good of the community, not to meet our own needs."