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David Kinnaman: Start the Conversation

Church leaders must recognize that what feels hidden is actually hurting people, and that discipleship includes helping people break free from destructive patterns.

Avoid These 10 Awful Messages to Visitors

There’s no joy in sharing these stories, but there’s clarity. These experiences shine a spotlight on what must change if we truly want to be welcoming communities of grace.

The Future of Church Outreach: 3 Key Trends We Must Engage

EDITORIAL Leading Mission | Andy Cook Standing on the steps of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Hall in 1980, Graham asked his audience a pivotal question: How...

My Biggest Ministry Fail

It would be many years before I began to realize how much I needed others. My failure to recognize the beauty of believers serving together cost me much in those early years.

Blessed — More than a Hashtag

Based on its usage, to be blessed means something good has happened in your life. But the issue with defining “blessing” this way is how challenging it becomes to apply that definition to biblical descriptions of blessing.

3 Advantages of a Small Church

Jesus is about mission, not church size.

When Prayer Is Contagious

There is something that touches heaven and moves the heart of the Father when we align together in prayer, in agreement with God’s will.

7 Tips to Up Your Leadership

Let God lead you through Scripture. Find passages that relate to your daily struggles. Many Bibles today have additional tools to help you. A simple study note or devotion can give you more confidence in your decision-making.

10 Signs You’re Struggling With Arrogance

Markers for self-evaluation

Look to Proverbs for Leadership Training

Leadership has to start with leading yourself well. You may be skilled, charismatic, or gifted, and those things may serve you well and advance your influence. Nevertheless, those abilities will only get you so far if you have not cultivated integrity.

Keeping Up With the Harvest

At every sermon, people are invited to receive Christ, regardless of the numbers present. Moses also says that changing his prayer life changed the ministry. God asked him to spend more time in prayer.