What God Wants From Your Church
It is natural for your church to experience resistance to making progress. Discovering what God wants from your church reveals His plan for overcoming challenges.
Leadership
Are Pastors Sending the Wrong Message About Encouraging Bible Use?
The pastor makes the Scripture seem too complicated when he spends a lot of time digging into the Greek and Hebrew, unintentionally discouraging Bible use. Members go away feeling only the Ph.Ds can grasp its meaning.
Churches Are Receiving Less of Total Charitable Giving
Churches are receiving less of the total charitable giving. Overall, charitable giving is on the rise in the United States, but churches are receiving a smaller and smaller portion due to a variety of factors. The bottom line is simple: People who give see the church as merely one option among many places to give.
7 Ways to Ease the Transition of Successful Church Mergers
Common practices of successful church mergers that ensure a smooth transition.
7 Surprising Post-Pandemic Church Trends
Deferred maintenance crises in churches are hindering church adoption. Simply stated, many potential church adoptions have been delayed or dropped because the adopting church cannot afford to upgrade the facilities of the declining church seeking adoption, impacting post-pandemic church trends.
Does God Keep Some Qualified for His Work?
The Lords best servants are the congregations best leaders. Those who lead best are humble servants willing to stoop and wash the feet or rise and lead the charge, whatever the situation requires for those qualified for the Lord's work.
Should My Church Launch a New Location? Considering a Church Multisite Strategy
Reproducing campuses is not the same as adding another ministry to your church. Moving from a mono-site to a multi-site church mentality is a major paradigm shift, and a church multisite strategy is crucial for success.
Defending Biblical Marriage
It takes courage to stand with Scripture in a culture hostile to its moral compass, especially when defending the biblical marriage definition against shifting societal norms. Sometimes it takes even more courage to stand up to your own religious peers when they are the ones capitulating to that culture.
How I Preach the Word Accurately
The preachers primary responsibility is to know what Gods Word says so God can speak through the preacher to the congregation, who in turn go out and live how God directs them to live, which starts with learning how to preach the Word accurately.
A Full Circle Asbury University Revival Experience
There was a joy and life to the Asbury University revival experience that took me back to my childhood days at county fairs.