Articles for Outreach & Missions

What Is the [functional] Great Commission of Your Church?

The functional Great Commission in North America: Go into all the world and make more worship attenders, baptizing them in the name of small groups, and teaching them to volunteer a few times a month.

Are Science and the Bible at Odds?

If we take most of the Bible literally, it can be tempting to believe that the Bible and science are at odds with one another.

How to Know You Are Experiencing Spiritual Abuse

Spiritual abuse is subtle. Josh Weidmann offers some tips from his experience with abuse that will show you how it operates.

Nevertheless, She Persisted in Christ: Aging With Grace

My grandmother subverted the self-asserting agenda of “Nevertheless, She Persisted” in favor of a higher calling: “Nevertheless, She Persisted in Christ.”

Digging New Wells & Results Oriented Ministry at Your Church with David Kinnan

When deciding what needs to be changed and how to change it, David and his team think of it in terms of “wells.”

Three Church Planting Practices That Need to Die

Too many churches open and then close too often because instead of looking to God, they were looking to themselves.

Pharisees Praying: Two Went Up to Pray

The Savior of the parable was heading to the cross to lay down his life for the filthy, morally bankrupt, religiously void tax collector so that he might justify him by faith alone.

How to Crack the Hard Soil of Secular Cities

Even though secular cities can be hard soil, the good news is that the Spirit of God can till the hardest of clay.