Articles for Outreach & Missions
10 Ideas for Meeting Your Neighbors
How do we get to meet our physical neighbors? Those people who live within a close proximity to us? Here are a few suggestions.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
The Great Commission and 3 Types of Churches
When it comes to obeying the Great Commission, there are three types of churches. Which type is your church?
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...
Church Planting
Church Planting in Inner-City Contexts: 3 Tensions To Navigate
There is a misnomer in church planting, and it’s this: inner-city church planting is just a subset of the broader church planting movement.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
5 Fascinating Lessons From a ‘Secret’ Guest in Church Worship Services
The guests showed up to your church worship services, but they never returned. Has that ever happened in your church? You speak with someone who is visiting for the first time. You try to be friendly. But you never see them again.
Church Planting
Wisdom From Experience for Church Planters and Pastors
I was meeting with a potential church planter and some wisdom from the years of experience flooded my mind. I think they are valuable for all leaders, but especially my friends in ministry.
Church Planting
Strategies To Launch a Healthy Church
Important for launching a healthy church is strategizing around each phase of the Church Life Cycle.
Church Planting
How the Rise and Fall of Mars Hill Could Change Church Planting
While many themes are pertinent to The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, here is what their story can teach us about what the future of church planting in North America should look like.
Administration
3 Perspectives on How to Start a Church With Little to No Money
When it comes to how to start a church, two things are certain: (1) God can provide, and (2) people matter more than money.
Church Planting
What You Can Learn Every Time You Unsubscribe Email
My email purge is reasonably straightforward: I filter my inbox, searching for emails originating from a mailing list. At the bottom of each message is the word I'm searching for: "unsubscribe." But what can I learn from the process?
Church Planting
How To Avoid Digital DIY – 5 Great Resources
The problem of digital DIY is we spend hours watching tutorials on web development only to realize we’ve ruined our entire website with that one accidental line of code.
