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?
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place where He was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field.” —…
Dallas Willard once said, “Every church ought to ask two questions. What is our plan for making disciples, and is that plan working?” The reality is, very few leaders are asking those questions. Church leaders are not failing to ask those important questions because they are bad leaders and don’t care. Leaders are not asking…
Understanding your church’s culture is like doing a connect the dot worksheet, but with no dots and no lines. Instead, just information scattered on the page. The challenge is to sort out the important information from the noise that seeks to hide it. Lack of clarity isn’t the only challenge. Every culture presents noise and…
The future is coming. If you look closely toward the horizon you can see a hint of light pushing against the darkness. As the future rises now is the time to seize the day! Though we currently sit in the darkness of the in-between, a new day is dawning. For church leaders the transition from…
Learn the difference between the core mission and the only mission. Join Bobby Harrington, Justin Gravitt, Alex Mata, and Steve McCoy on Thursday, December 3rd at 10am (CST) for a lively discussion on how disciple making is the cultural environment that drives everything in the local church.
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