Financial Transformation – Part 4
Mark DeYmaz offers practical ideas for encouraging for-profit business to enhance the community.
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Social Transformation – Part 3
A church that reflects its community is uniquely positioned to revive faith, restore hope and reveal love in the community.
Spiritual Transformation – Part 2
Can a church really hope to transform a community if in fact it does not reflect the community, particularly in terms of ethnic and economic diversity?
How to Transform a Community – Part 1
Instead of changing the world, seek to transform a neighborhood, a ZIP code or an apartment complex with a more focused vision.
How to Engage the Community
Efrem Smith: "The churches that are doing the best in our conference in engaging their surrounding community are the ones who value a cause more than their Sunday morning worship."
A Church for the City
Eugene Cho: “If we reduce church to a program, we’ve forgotten our identity as a ‘sent’ people.”
Test Drive a Small Group
How LCBC Church develops groups by letting guests experience a trial run first
What Happens When the Church Prays?
Brooklyn Tabernacle's Jim Cymbala: Do we really believe God can draw anyone to Himself?
Competition for Caring
Why not host a giving competition during the slow summer months? Here's what worked for one church.
Can We Really Change the World?
Only God can fix the world; but as we fulfill our calling and carry God’s good news of salvation, healing and justice into the world, we become a very real part of changing it.
