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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.

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."

Rich Stearns: Are We Radical Enough?

"Jesus’ agenda is about changing the world. It’s a breath-taking revolution to bring all things under the reign of Jesus Christ. We are to show the world an extraordinary new way to live."

17 Summer Outreach Tips

Seize the next few months and make this summer the best ever for outreach!

Great Moments in Community Transformation

The ZIP-code sized aspiration of Mosaic Church of Central Arkansas

Financial Transformation – Part 4

Mark DeYmaz offers practical ideas for encouraging for-profit business to enhance the community.