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Community Presbyterian Church: A Warm Meal and a Welcome

Visitors have described the center as a place that “restores your faith in humanity.”

When ‘Equipping’ Isn’t Enough

If our churches’ equipping efforts stop at ‘learn, repeat,’ essentially, we are training parrots.

Kyle Strobel: Power in Weakness

“Christians should become powerful Christians. But it’s only ever a power made perfect in our weakness, and it’s only ever a power that comes from God.”

Ashley Wooldridge: Radical Generosity

When you get radically generous, it invites the blessing of God in a supernatural way.

Michelle Sanchez: Chosen by God

It is because partnership is God’s chosen way that we now have the privilege of becoming “God’s fellow workers” (1 Cor. 3:9).

Reach a Whole Region

Local networks were how the early church spread outward. To see the same spread and gospel saturation of Christianity today, planters must think beyond their own church plants and imagine networks of churches.

Ed Stetzer: Thoughts on the Megachurch

Prioritizing health ensures a church culture that is equitable, avoids abuse and scandal, and treats each person as an image-bearer of God.

Natasha Sistrunk Robinson: A Safe Place for Women

When we survey Jesus’ encounters with vulnerable people—especially women—in the New Testament, we see him responding with kindness. Jesus loves and cares for the plight of women.

Matthew Watley: Growth Through Service

It’s not the number of people who come to church, but the number who go out to serve, that defines real growth.

Every Culture Welcome: How Growing Churches Are Reaching Different Ethnic Groups

We believe that the church should model the ethnic diversity of the area around it.

5 Cultural Trends Driving the Growth of Microchurches

The decentralized approach of microchurches allows the gospel to be heard and seen in tangible ways for different cultural subgroups.