Excerpted FromLeading Small Groups That ThriveBy Ryan Hartwig, Courtney Davis and Jason Sniff Both pastors and leaders indicated to us that their greatest needs are recruiting and developing leaders. Even though ministries are spending a ton of time and resources discussing strategies for developing small group leaders, there still are not enough effective leaders. If we […]
Excerpted FromCompassion & ConvictionBy Justin Giboney, Michael Wear and Chris Butler No one makes political decisions from a neutral position. To make a policy decision is to choose certain values and goods over others. Political decisions are inevitably informed by a certain worldview or outlook. When Christians arent applying biblical principles to their political opinions, the gospel political decisions framework is crucial, […]
Excerpted From Deep Discipleship By J.T. English The local church has a discipleship disease. And without the proper diagnosis and treatment plan, we will do more harm than good. Over the past several decades the Western church has noticed alarming symptoms of our local church discipleship disease. Some of these symptoms include people leaving the church, students dropping out […]
How do you lose 7 million people? That was the question the worlds largest Protestant denomination, Southern Baptists, asked themselves at their annual convention in 2018. After two years of leading a team of pastors and ministry leaders who made up a disciple-making task force, I (Robby) couldnt believe our findings about losing church members. As shocking as it […]
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How to Silence the Lies of Your Past and Actually Experience Who God Says You Are (Baker)
Excerpted FromDiscover Your True SelfBy Chip Ingram Let me ask you a couple of very important questions about your identity. First, what is your image of God? A.W. Tozer taught us that we tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God. He also said that what comes […]
A Guide to Digital Discipleship (Zondervan Reflective)
Excerpted FromFrom Social Media to Social MinistryBy Nona Jones As an executive and entrepreneur, I believe sustained success starts with a clearly defined vision by which opportunities are evaluated and from which decisions are made. To put it as Stephen Covey did in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, we should “begin with the … Continued
Excerpted FromThe Way Up Is DownBy Marlena Graves If I want to be full, open to receiving abundant gracemore human, selflessfirst I must be emptied. He must increase, and I must decrease (John 3:30). The word I discovered is kenosis. Oh, its not that I never heard the word. On the contrary, Im quite familiar with the concept of kenosis self-emptying […]
