Guest Post by Scott Huff
Let’s face it… in today’s America, students are not just walking into your church off the streets because they wake up one day and feel the need to go to church. There are a few …
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If you are a leader, you know things at times can get pretty lonely. You know that because you need to make some tough decisions, because you are the one who helps organizes everything to make things happen, who trains …
Numbers matter.
“It’s not about the numbers. I don’t look at the numbers at all. They don’t matter.”
They do.
Now before you get all puffed up, let’s really talk about it.
Let me ask you a couple of real
…At a recent mission trip meeting, my teens wrestled with whether or not our summer mission trip currently focuses on serving others (meeting needs) or on enacting justice (recognizing, understanding, and addressing systemic brokenness).
By default, most mission trips skew …
Transitions are a natural part of ministry. For you, as a minister, transitioning to a new church is something you will likely experience more than once in your life, and maybe something coming up quickly
Guest post by Ronald Long
There are 1189 chapters in the Bible. There’s absolutely no way you can teach your students all of them in the six or seven years that you might have them under your care.
So what …
When I worked at Saddleback they introduced me to a series called YOU OWN THE WEEKEND where they gave up their services to high schools where students from those high schools owned every aspect of the service. From planning, budgets, …