Articles for Outreach & Missions

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.

Mission will never fit into your busy schedule. The key is learning to live your whole life as mission, and seeing where that decision takes you and how it shapes your schedule.

Background: Over the last couple months, pastor and author J.D. Greear finished writing a review of the new and much-discussed book Irresistible by pastor...

Jeremiah’s prophecy displays God’s global redemptive mission from beginning to end.

I realize there are other arguments, often theological, against a church having multiple campuses, but one of the most practical arguments has essentially been: “Multiple campuses extends a leader’s personality in an unsustainable way and builds a ministry around one communicator on a screen.”

Living in such a nominal religious context presents some dangers, difficulties, and directives for believers who are passionately committed to king Jesus.

Hinduism marks the philosophy of everything from The Matrix to Star Wars. But Buddhism is what we increasingly practice. Or, more to the point, pray.