by Ralph Moore | Mar 16, 2021 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
I met an interesting congregation on one of my teaching trips. They call themselves “The Oregon Community.” They were a recent church plant with an intense focus on meeting the needs of their local community. Outgrowing a rented facility gave a whole new opportunity...
by Dave Workman | Mar 11, 2021 | Church Health, Church Leadership, Church Revitalization
“Virtually everything our modern culture believes about the type of leadership required to transform our institutions is wrong. It is also dangerous. There is perhaps no more corrosive trend to the health of our organizations than the rise of the celebrity CEO, the...
by Steve Sjogren | Mar 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today more than ever, we have bi-vocational, co-vocational, and even multi-vocational pastors and church planters. Steve Sjogren shares his heart about this topic. Rather than viewing it as a negative, we can radically change our mindset to see the positive effects of...
by Jeff Christopherson | Dec 1, 2020 | Church Leadership, Church Revitalization
Five examples of kingdom behaviors that should be quantified. Numbers can be deceptive. Everyone knows that. Bigger doesn’t equal better. Often, it is much worse. Strength is no indicator of spiritual significance. In fact, weakness is the biblical meta-narrative....
by Bill Tenny-Brittian | Oct 6, 2020 | Communication / Preaching, Discipleship, Small Church / Rural Church
“So, what about online discipleship? How do you make that work?” A quick perusal of churches on the internet reveals that the US church is all over the map in terms of virtual discipleship offerings. Many churches have virtually nothing at all (pun intended!). Some...