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Don’t Just Listen

Don’t Just Listen

Listening to God is vital for every believer to have a growing relationship with Him. As important as that is, listening is not enough. God isn’t just looking for listeners; He’s looking for people who listen to His voice and act on what they hear. Jesus said, “My sheep listen to my voice; I know…

Burnout

Burnout

by Craig Etheredge Do you ever feel overworked as a pastor? Like you’re at the church every moment of every day with a never-ending list of to-dos? Are you spending more time doing church programming instead of time investing in meaningful relationships with others? Does your family have to come up to the church just…

Our Discipleship Problem Is Actually a Gospel Problem

Our Discipleship Problem Is Actually a Gospel Problem

by Matt Dabbs and Bobby Harrington What is the gospel? Why aren’t more Christians making disciples? The answers to these two questions are inextricably linked. Our definition of the gospel will affect if and how we make mature disciples who can make more disciples. Here are two ways having a misinformed definition of the gospel…

Signs of Revival Continued

Signs of Revival Continued

Sometimes you have to know what something is in order to know if you have it. Revival is one of those things. For example, sitting through a week of church meetings does not mean you have had revival. Being in a tent meeting with special guest speakers does not guarantee you have experienced revival.  However,…

Signs of Revival

Signs of Revival

Revival happens personally before it happens corporately. Revival comes to people, not churches. We simply see it better when lots of people in a congregation are experiencing the same commitments to the plans of God at the same time. This is exactly what happened in the Jerusalem Church as recoded in Acts 2. Thousands of…

2021 National Disciple Making Forum: A 5-Point Summary

2021 National Disciple Making Forum: A 5-Point Summary

We just concluded our 2021 National Disciple Making Forum. This annual gathering is unique—more than twenty networks/organizations come together to focus on disciple making. At the Forum, we do not focus on one group or one way of disciple making. As one person described it to me: “The national gathering is a collection of disciple…

A Look into Sonlife Staff Experiences: Art and Beckie Melli

A Look into Sonlife Staff Experiences: Art and Beckie Melli

by Art Melli Two and half years ago we moved back to the US after serving with Youth for Christ International in Europe for 27 years. During that time, we worked with US military kids on 38 bases across Europe, missionary kids at a MK school in southern Europe, and the Young Leaders Director for…

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