How Do We Define Success in Ministry?
God is working. But its not flashy, predictable, or perhaps even noticeable to the surrounding community. This article explores how we can approach defining success in ministry.
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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.
It Starts With Just One
Church members were responsible for inviting their “one” to church where a banquet was held and an invitation to join the church family was given. More than 40 people joined.
Doing Effective Apologetics Well
Telling people stories about how God has come through for you or for people you know can speak powerfully to them, forming an effective apologetics defense.
What Does It Mean to Love Your Neighbor?
One of the most disorienting things for many Christians in the West today is finding that theyre on the moral low ground in the eyes of their non-Christian friends and neighbors, leading to questions about the true love your neighbor meaning.
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.
Arriving Home: God’s Glory In Small Lives
How do we get so caught up in believing this journey is all about us? The pressures off, friend; all the glory belongs to Christ. Discover God's glory in small lives.
More Than You Were Meant to Carry: Understanding Emotional Baggage
The antidote to pride is still humility, but a kind of humility thats different from what were used to. We typically think of humility as thinking lowly of oneself, and we dont struggle to think lowly of ourselves when carrying emotional baggage.
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.
The Bible and the Civil Rights Movement
Many scholars describe the civil rights movement as a political movement with religious dressinguseful for the movements purposes but not central to the message. But the work of historian David L. Chappell, based on testimonies by civil rights activists and leaders, contradicts this. Their accounts indicate that it was, for them, primarily a religious event, showing the profound influence of the Bible on the civil rights movement.
