Leadership

How the Church Can Take the Lead in Suicide Prevention

"The church is for the broken. A church without the broken is a broken church."

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.

How Loneliness and Belonging: How Often Do You Feel Lonely?

Jesus’s life reveals loneliness and belonging as a blueprint for healthy relationships.

Put Out the Welcome Mat for Community Partnerships

There are endless opportunities to turn unused space into community space through welcome community partnerships, but it will take a flexible and agile leadership eye to embrace change.

Repurposing Your Church Space for Community

The one thing a faltering church typically has is space: empty classrooms, parking lots, education buildings, or offices. Learn how your local church can leverage that church space for community needs.

Change Your Church’s Scorecard Effectiveness

The way the world measures church scorecard effectiveness must not become the way the church does. The scorecard that the church has used for decades has become broken.

God Is Not Limited by Our Lack of Provision

When churches lack resources, it's easy to feel discouraged, but God's provision in lack can bring revitalization.

Lessons From Two Sisters On Responsiveness

Refrain from allowing the distractions of ministry to overwhelm your sense of servanthood by sometimes being served by others, learning lessons from sisters responsiveness.

Surrendered Leadership

Sometimes big change masquerades as small change. We go to the meetings as we are directed by our electronic calendars, but we increasingly see these commitments and our to-do lists as Gods call on our time as we develop these priorities in prayer, embracing surrendered leadership.

Plug Into God’s Power

A church that prays is a church that changes its focus from self to the Savior and redeems the time for God's will in the church's life.

Growing Relationships Rather Than Numbers

When a church focuses on the person as a whole and not the transactional relationship often, they see Christ in the person and not the person inside the local church, which begins to tare the veil of developing relationships to become pew warmers.