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Pastors
Articles for Small Group Leaders
The Need for Advanced Discipleship
Advanced discipleship training serves the most underserved people in the church: people who reach a midway point in their maturity but don’t get to “the other side.”
Articles for Outreach & Missions
How to Defeat Your Distractions
Distraction is not defeated in a few fell blows, but by many small, habitual ones. Therefore, I will not promise to provide you in...
Pastors
One Thing Every Church Should Include in Pastor Compensation
Many pastors are underpaid, not just for the specific kind of work they do, they aren’t paid enough! In that context, should I really bring up something that churches should ADD to a pastor’s compensation package?
Articles for Pastors
4 Bad Ways to Run a Church — And One Good One
Something’s driving your church. There are good ways to run a church and there are bad ways to run a church . . . the challenge for many church leaders is no one is really quite clear on what that is.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
Church Attendance Is Dying. Here’s What’s Next:
Church attendance is dying. Big time. in the future church only the engaged will attend because only the engaged will remain.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
Church Growth: How to Reach 100 New Guests This Year
Most churches want to reach unchurched people. They take the Great Commission seriously and want their church to make a positive difference for the Kingdom
Articles for Pastors
Thom Rainer: 5 Things That Masked The Death of a Church
I think it’s worth noting why some members were really surprised when their church closed its doors. Find out more about the death of a church.
Articles for Pastors
The Response of Preaching: Why the Gospel Invitation Matters
He proclaimed the Gospel based on several Old Testament texts and concluded by extending a Gospel invitation for his listeners to respond.