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.
Service
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
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.
A Seismic Shift in Outreach
Jesus wed mission and message together seamlessly - it's time for us to do the same.
Who Is Our Neighbor Today?
“There is no moral excuse for how we are now treating our neighbors who are falling along the side of the road of the global supply chains, which are now the world’s main roads.”
The Crossroads of Outreach and Immigration
When it comes to illegal immigration, should we build a bigger fence or cultivate more compassion?
Living a Gospel-Saturated Life
“What else might we do today that would be more significant than telling others that the God of the universe loves them and desires for them to know him and be saved from their sins forever?”
