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 Jim Sheppard | Jul 10, 2018 | Church Leadership
What if you could punch the “increase giving” button in your church and watch generosity happen. That would be nice, wouldn’t it, but it doesn’t work that way. The reality is that generosity is systemic. Everything affects it. Generosity to a church is the result of a...
by Jim Sheppard | Nov 16, 2012 | Outreach and Evangelism
The truth is that God doesn’t need our money, but He knows that our orientation toward money reflects our obedience to the Lordship of Christ and how well we grasp that he is the source of all we have. As followers of Christ, our goal in life is not gaining power,...
by Jim Sheppard | Sep 16, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
Given the challenges that many individuals, families, and churches are now facing in the aftermath of the global economic crisis that began in late 2008, the topic of generosity is more timely than ever before. When our security is threatened due to a job loss or the...
by Bob Logan | Sep 4, 2012 | Church Leadership
One of the essential elements of a disciple– and therefore of the church as a whole– is sacrificial service. Yet in the flurry of activity that is the church, it’s amazing how quickly we forget about sacrificial service to others and turn inward instead....
