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How to Leverage Existing Ministries for Outreach

“You could launch new outreach ministries without removing any existing ministries, increasing your budget or adding staff.”

One Church’s Story of Transformation

We waited as each church went through the 30-day jumpstart. Then we heard the stories.

Charlie Dates: The Indestructible Power of the Gospel

Jesus lived 33 years, walking on water as it recognized its creator King and became a solid. He turned water into wine. He welcomed sinners and the marginalized into his company. And then, he died—that is, until death died. Until sin apologized. Until the earth rocked and reeled like a drunken man. Until the sun could no longer stand seeing its own creator crucified to a tree, so it pulled the shade across the noonday. They laid him in a borrowed tomb, but early Sunday morning, before the sun got up, the Son pulled one foot out of eternity, stepped back into time, and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me” (Matt. 28:18).

5 Steps Toward Racial Justice and Reconciliation

Racial justice and reconciliation are central to the gospel. Here's how predominantly white churches can join the cause.

Listen Closely When You Get Mad

If we find ourselves getting angry, chances are the anger was already in our hearts. The circumstance was just the thing that got us going.

Planting a Sending Church

Your church is not just for your neighborhood, but for the nations.

Making Wise Leadership Decisions

It is often a judgment call of whether to say yes or no.

Spiritual Backstories

Churches can be places where followers of Christ carefully listen to and pray through people’s life stories with empathy, extending the kind of care and grace that Jesus showed everyone, regardless of their backstory.

A Legacy of People-Building

A life spent helping people is a beautiful life

How Do You Know if the Holy Spirit Is Moving?

Too many prayer-focused Christians lock themselves in a room, claim to get filled with the Spirit, but then never go out of their prayer closets to share the Good News.

Is Your Church Stuck?

Some church leaders question whether asking numerical numbers borders on the idolatry of numbers. Others simply don’t worry about attendance numbers.