by Steve Sjogren | Aug 28, 2020 | Church Revitalization, Outreach and Evangelism, Servant Evangelism
Invest your outreach dollars wisely. Don’t give your leadership blessing willy-nilly to all things that appear on your radar screen. Decent ideas are not necessarily the calling of the Spirit. Open doors are not assignments from On High. Allow God to speak to you. He...
by Rice Broocks | Aug 26, 2020 | Church Leadership, Outreach and Evangelism
In the time before MP3’s (long, long ago) music was played on a device called a “Record player.” When your favorite hit song came out there was no iTunes to download from, so you had to purchase songs on a small disc (record) called a “45.” There...
by Steve Sjogren | Aug 12, 2020 | Church Revitalization, Outreach and Evangelism, Servant Evangelism, Small Church / Rural Church
John Chapman, aka the legendary “Johnny Appleseed”, was a missionary who reached out to Native Americans in the Ohio Valley in the early 1800s. He Had Simple Tools His primary planting tool was a stick! Do you have a stick? When his current stick wore out he found a...
by Steve Sjogren | Aug 3, 2020 | Outreach and Evangelism, Servant Evangelism
“We will start just as soon as we have the financing to do so.” It may seem reasonable to place this caveat on your projects, but such thinking is not reasonable. Most of what is done in the Name of God is accomplished by unreasonable people. Simply begin doing...
by Jeff Hoglen | Jul 15, 2020 | Church Revitalization, Coaching, Pastoral Burnout
But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.” -Ruth 1:16 (NIV) I’ve had an opportunity to reflect on my 23 years of ministry....
