by Ron Edmondson | Dec 31, 2021 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Discipleship
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols. 2 Chronicles 34:3 (Emphasis mine.) I read this verse this...
by Charles Ridley | Dec 28, 2021 | Church Health, Church Leadership, Discipleship
Call me old school. Throughout my education, I worked hard to achieve. Academic and athletic achievements did not come easy, or so it seems. But when they came, I learned to be thankful. In elementary school, I had to overcome setbacks in the 3Rs due to an undetected...
by Dave Workman | Dec 24, 2021 | Church Leadership
Sometime back I got an email from a church describing their discipleship pathway. They were particularly focused on “skeptics”. The way they described their generalized mission was leading people from skeptic to seeker to saved to servant. I like that continuum. I...
by Bill Tenny-Brittian | Dec 16, 2021 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become...
by Dave Workman | Dec 14, 2021 | Church Leadership, Church Revitalization, Servant Evangelism
In the early days of our church, founding pastor Steve Sjogren coined a simple phrase for people to use in basic “servant evangelism” outreaches. For instance, when we did free car washes…or water bottle giveaways at busy intersections…or raked leaves or...
