by Craig Etheredge I’ve heard some of the common excuses we hear from pastors about spending their time investing in people personally. It can seem a little odd that this is an area of pushback from pastors, but when we break the excuses down one by one, it starts to make more sense. As we…
by Craig Etheredge When I talk to leaders about personally investing in people, I often get a bit of pushback. For some reason, there is a resistance when it comes to personal investment in people. When I first became a pastor, I didn’t know much about how to invest in a man’s life. Most of…
By Chad Harrington We are witnessing cultural chaos in the West unlike any time in recent memory, and Christians are wondering what to do on various issues. What do we do about mask mandates? How do we handle freedom of speech challenges? What happens when the government asks us to do something with which we…
by Craig Etheredge In this post I share three spiritual disciplines and ways you can challenge your church to practice. 1. Reading and Memorizing God’s Word This can seem like the most elementary discipline, but it really is one of the most important. Scripture is our direct line to insight from God about almost every…
by Craig Etheredge Is your church healthy? That can feel like a loaded question, but we think it’s an important one to ask. Church health can have a skewed meaning in the eyes of the North American church. Many Christians look at the churches that have thousands of people attending each Sunday and think that’s…
by Craig Etheredge Ministry would be a lot easier if there were a step by step handbook telling us how to lead our church… Wait. There is. The book of Acts isn’t just the apostles sharing the gospel and performing miracles. We see the very beginnings of the church and how it operated. We saw…
Over the last couple of years, I have found myself reflecting on the contrast between good church members and growing disciples. This, in turn, has led me to consider the subtle differences between churches who emphasize making growing disciples and churches that don’t, even if those churches are what we would describe as healthy, growing churches. I think…
by Ken Adams The answer is “yes!” Your church can be a multiplying movement. In my last blog I discussed four essential questions you need to ask concerning your church. The first question was whether or not your church was a movement of addition or multiplication. To be clear, Jesus started the Church to be…
By: Alisa Childers Several years ago, my husband and I began attending a local Evangelical, non-denominational church, and we loved it. We cherished the sense of community we found among the loving and authentic people we met there, and the intelligent, “outside the box” pastor who led our flock with thought-provoking and insightful sermons. Sadly,…
By Frank Nuckolls, Impact Discipleship Ministries There is a great need for strong, effective leadership in the Church today. If leaders simply want to maintain the status quo, they will fail in leading the Church to accomplish its God-given mission and vision. Pastors and leaders in the Church today need to be people who understand…
I was having a conversation about Matthew 28:19–20 and the mission of the church with two men who had Bible College degrees and a decade’s worth of ministry behind them. And like so many pastors today, they had misunderstood that well-known text. They thought the Great Commission was all about evangelism. The mission of the…
In this ebook we want to get at the heartbeat of what a church is all about. What does God want us to do? What is our purpose? Where are we going?
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