by Steve Sjogren | Sep 11, 2024 | Discipleship, Pastoral Burnout
A snail and a slug scoot down the sidewalk one morning on their way to work as usual. They converged faster than either one of them anticipated and boom, they crashed into one another. The police showed up and asked the snail what happened. All he could say was,...
by Ron Edmondson | Aug 14, 2024 | Church Health, Discipleship
I’ve often heard people say you can’t measure discipleship. I don’t know if that’s true. It is certainly true you can’t necessarily put a number or percentage on discipleship growth – as easily as you can numerical growth, but you can tell, over time, if discipleship...
by Jeff Christopherson | Apr 19, 2024 | Church Health, Church Planting, Discipleship
Christian discipleship is what happens when people live daily with Jesus. Jesus drew incredible, mammoth church-sized crowds during His earthly ministry. But many people had different agendas. The Gospels reveal that Jesus excused more people from the crowds than He...
by Ed Stetzer | Jan 10, 2024 | Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism, Small Church / Rural Church
MISSIONARY IDENTITY The reality is, Christians are interlopers. We are strangers and foreigners. As Christians, I believe we should always be more driven by our missionary identity than we are by our national identity, our political identity, our environmental...
by Jeff Hoglen | Nov 13, 2023 | Church Health, Church Leadership, Pastoral Burnout
In our continuous journey through life’s ups and downs, it’s easy to get caught up in our daily routines, losing sight of the spiritual nourishment that fuels our soul. It’s high time we stopped neglecting our own need for spiritual nourishment and...
