Leadership

How to Overcome Betrayal Trauma in Ministry

With their friends’ departures, pastors have had to recalibrate the very real cost of spiritual intimacy in doing life together.

The Rise of the Entrepreneurial Church: How Churches Can Fund Ministry Beyond Tithes

Entrepreneurial church models allow churches to step outside the walls of Sunday services and meet people where they live, work and gather. They open doors to relationships that lead to discipleship. They create spaces for people who might never set foot in a sanctuary to encounter the love of Christ.

Where Do you See God at Work in Your Church?

We know God is with us, but under the pace and pressure of life and leadership, we become focused more on solutions than His presence.

Leaders, It’s Time for a New Message

Midway through the pandemic, it’s time to pivot our messaging.

What Churches Are Learning as They Begin to Regather

Reopening church in light of COVID-19 has brought 9 things into sharper focus.

How 5 Types of Church Leaders Will Fare in the Future

The future belongs to the innovators.

Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus

RACE & THE GOSPEL When you think of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, what immediately comes to mind? Perhaps costly discipleship, German prophet or Confessing Church. Only rarely...

Why ‘Church Adoption’ and ‘Church Fostering’ Are Essential

When Sam Rainer coined the word “adoption” two years ago as a descriptor of one church acquiring another, I knew he was on to...

How One Church and Its City Are Partnering to Provide Housing for the Homeless

Grove Community Church and the local government of Riverside, California, team up for change.

4 Crucial Lessons for the Post-COVID Church

This article originally appeared on MissioAlliance.org and is reposted here by permission. In 2004, Patricia O’Connell Killen and Mark Silk edited and contributed to the book Religion...

Finding Momentum When Everything Is Working Against It

So you’re leading in a tougher environment than you’ve ever led through in your life. How do you find momentum and growth in a season...