by Dave Workman | Oct 22, 2020 | Church Leadership, Communication / Preaching, Discipleship
For some unknown reason, I recently stumbled across a 60-year old interview with Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace. As you probably know, Rand’s philosophy was and is controversial to this day: a laissez-faire capitalism and hyper-individualistic philosophy. Her two novels,...
by Jeff Hoglen | Oct 20, 2020 | Church Revitalization, Communication / Preaching, Outreach and Evangelism, Servant Evangelism
Sunday services are filled with information that the pastor/preacher hopes will be life-transforming for the listeners. Sometimes, however, we find ourselves (Pastors) so busy in the day-to-day ministry activities that we aren’t doing what we tell others. More...
by Travis Stephens | Oct 15, 2020 | Church Leadership, Church Revitalization, Discipleship
In my last post, I told you your sermon was overrated, and to my surprise, many of you actually agreed. It just doesn’t make sense to spend 15-20+ hours a week on a 45-minute sermon that most of your congregation is going to forget by Tuesday. Instead, let’s try to...
by Steve Sjogren | Sep 24, 2020 | Church Revitalization, Outreach and Evangelism, Servant Evangelism
It doesn’t take a large crew to make leave a big footprint. Victory in God’s kingdom has always gone to the underdogs. God nearly always anoints a minuscule group to do his bidding. I find this encouraging since all that I have started has been small – usually for a...
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...