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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.

Ryan Kwon: Nothing to Prove

“We’re so accustomed to the church being a noun. I want our bias to be action-oriented, and a movement that goes outward.”

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.

Multiplication Beyond 2022—Looking at the Essentials

Take a walk with us back to March 2020. One by one, venues where people gathered began closing their doors: restaurants, hair salons, gyms—even...

Uniquely Suited: How Introverts Can Help Save the Church From Itself

When I turned 30, I started going to professional therapy. Honestly, it was long overdue. And one of the biggest revelations I learned about myself was that I’m an introvert.

10 Ministry Culture Killers

The ways we unwillingly create unhealthy environments in our ministries

Cultivating Spiritual Authority in a Healthy Way

5 steps on the lifelong path to spiritual authority

5 Prescriptions for Building Thriving Churches

How we can bring life and health to our church and community

6 Signs You’ve Overextended Yourself

And how to bring yourself back to balance

12 Signs You’ve Stopped Growing as a Leader

How to know if you're starting to lose your edge

Why Hybrid Church Is Here to Stay

Churches have been experiencing declining attendance for some time. What the pandemic did was accelerate and widen the effect of two seismic cultural changes that hold enormous import for the life and mission of the church.