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Trace Church: Waving the White Towel

Since Trace Church started using these white towels, baptism numbers have skyrocketed.

Unbroken Faithfulness

As we face challenge and opposition in our contexts, let’s be encouraged to keep going with consistency, moral courage and confidence in the Scriptures as God’s Word for all time—including our time.

Derwin Gray: 4 Ways to Refill

If we attempt to provide for others without first being nourished ourselves, we burn out. We wound ourselves and others.

Guiding Guests to Greater Involvement

How Substance Church in Roseville, Minn., quickly connects new attendees with friends and a ministry

A Better Way to Make Disciples

Jim Putman, the senior pastor of Real Life Ministries, discusses what it takes to plant a church that develops leaders from day one.

Meet Jacqueline – A Rwandan Entrepreneur Through World Vision

Richard Stearns, president of World Vision U.S., visits a phenomenally successful entrepreneur in Rwanda.

Why Thinning the Herd Can Be a Bad Idea

Larry Osborne: Jesus came to make the kingdom of God more accessible, not to impose stricter standards to exclude people.

Celebrating Small

Dan Kimball: “The large church has almost become routine. It doesn’t hold many unique factors anymore.”

The Limits of Large

Eugene Cho: “Numbers don’t guide us—the Holy Spirit does.”

Is Your Church a Monument or Mission Station?

Have we, in our enthusiasm to get home to heaven, forgotten the fundamental reason for the church’s existence in the community?

Why the Opposite of Missional Is Not Attractional

"Mission and attraction are two positive forces which are like the inhaling and exhaling of a body. It takes both to breathe."