Articles for Outreach & Missions

One of your most important jobs as a church leader isn’t casting vision—it’s creating clarity. People (even good people) naturally drift away from what’s most...

Throughout the world, there are over two hundred sign languages, each with its own signs and rules.

On this side of Heaven so far away, we may be tempted to envision our Homeland in black and white. But the Apostle John would tell us different—and he’s been there!

Where were you on April 20th, 1999 when you heard the news about the Columbine High School massacre?

We know there is a God-given ideal of what was or could now be when it comes to marriage, yet something tragic happened to make marriage far less than His ideal. So what is the cause of destructive conflict in our relationships? It our own self centeredness. We falsely believe we can be like God.

Lament should be your prayer when grief—of any kind—becomes a part of your life.

I think discipleship is better done in groups, where several people gather to meet with a leader to walk through the discipleship process. This makes a lot of sense when you look at how Jesus does discipleship in the Bible.

The first rule of thumb of church planting: Whatever you do to bring people into the facility must be maintained or they will end up leaving church as fast as they came.