7 Indicators of Church Health
"Church growth is a 'basic instinct' for church leaders. However, church growth without church health is asking for trouble."
Leadership
5 Strategies to Ignite Outreach in Your Church
Bobby Gruenewald: "Let these outreach strategies spark your team’s creative planning and problem solving."
6 Ways to Mobilize More Volunteers
"It seems the old 80/20 rule often rules—20 percent of the people do 80 percent of the work. But it doesn’t have to be like that."
7 Essential Boundaries to Protect Your Ministry and Marriage from Sexual Sin
Maintaining integrity in the ministry requires more than just good intentions; it requires practical boundaries. Explore seven critical "do’s and don’ts" for pastors—ranging from office conduct to accountability—to help you guard your heart, your family, and your calling against the snares of temptation.
Avoiding the Tradition Trap
Ed Stetzer: "We must not value our cultural expressions of the past more than the people God has sent us to in the present."
The Church’s Identity Crisis: Why Authenticity Matters
Phil Cooke: "Stop trying to be a bad version of something else, and be an incredible version of who you are."
4 Steps to Generating Church Momentum
"If your church is slowly growing, struggling or just plain stuck, there is a process that can help you get moving and get growing."
My Love/Hate Relationship With Leadership
Ed Stetzer: "Leadership was not something I naturally inherited; it was a skill and a practice I had to learn."
Incarnational Ministry: A Kingdom of Harlots
Hugh Halter: "I wonder if we spend too much time condemning people who don’t live as 'clean' as we think they should."
Why I Gave Up Working for God
"How are we to accomplish this daunting task of advancing the kingdom of God … both in the world and in ourselves?"
