The Blessing of Constraints
God fully knew the pandemic was happening when he led us to plan to launch new congregations.
God fully knew the pandemic was happening when he led us to plan to launch new congregations.
The real point of how many guests we all have at Easter isn’t about the size of our churches, its about the potential strength of the Body of Christ. Focusing after Easter matters for sustaining momentum.
We can learn three powerful lessons about evangelism from the paralytic's friends in Mark 2, by exploring bringing friends to Jesus.
I suspect more of us need to prepare for these kinds of conversations if we want to reach others. Don’t wait until next Easter to do this kind of study.
Trust is built when there is an opportunity to have a catalytic moment where someone shares their story, where you see into that person, and recovering resilience becomes a practical path for leadership.
Jesus has gathered his church to put the beauty of his creativity and wisdom on display to the ends of the earth.
God designed humans to live on Earth to his glory. Happiness on the New Earth is rooted in Christ’s incarnation, life, death, and resurrection securing a New Earth.
Learning from the past and seeing what God is doing in the present can point us to a different kind of future, and New Churches for a New Era offers a path for doing just that.
Remember who you are: Every time we choose the way of holiness… every time we choose to embrace the fruit of the Spirit… every time we choose to submit ourselves to God… we are acting like the people we have already become.
For every older donor who dies, moves to a different state or otherwise leaves a church, how many millennial church giving donors will be required to replace the loss of that donor’s consistent giving?