Go to the Source: Understanding Your Audience
The world is rapidly changing all around us. Focusing on understanding your audience helps us engage the present generation.
Books
Don’t Waste Your Season
We cannot rush the appearance of fruit to make ourselves feel or look better. don't waste your season and remember that growth happens in every season.
The Right People at the Right Time
The congregation has welcomed changes as different demographics join, embodying the Right people at the right time dynamic that keeps the church growing.
Create Community Through Technology
There are five practical ways in which I have personally seen my church transform from Sunday gatherings only to table fellowship that extends fellowship well into the week.
Outreach Resources of the Year: Theology
So many gospel presentations and simple summaries present the gospel as escape from sin and the world and entrance into eternal life. Such gospels skip life now and head for the eternal prize.
Fit for the Kingdom
The Lord prompted Reardon to think about combining Christian fellowship with fitness in order to create a new small group for men.
Flee, Fight, or Pray? A Church Conflict Resolution Approach
Fleeing may not be the answer, but through church conflict resolution, healing can begin in one's heart.
Truly Local: Church as the Soul of the City
Belonging means different things to different people. The church as the soul of the city becomes a personal homecoming, bustling into a bar, keyboard under my arm, for a jazz gig with local musicians.
A Prophet Is Not a Prophecy Is Not Prediction of the Future
The prophets claim more, and the people credited them with more than just astute human discernment. This article argues that prophecy is not prediction, reframing how we read prophetic messages today.
Dying to Live: Church Revitalization
The community outside the church's walls needs a Bible-teaching church as much as the church needs a community that is invested in what it offers, a path to church revitalization.