Articles for Outreach & Missions

It's a privilege to plant seeds for missions into this young person's heart. What should you tell him?

At some point, if you are sincere about your Christian faith, you are going to have a conversation with someone about it. Or are you?

A recent Barna survey asked Christian women what their biggest sin struggle is, and the top two answers were disorganization and inefficiency.

OK, this blog is a confession. I’m not good at saying “no.” Consequently, I sometimes struggle with a heavily-booked calendar and an overwhelmed spirit.

Big-attendance days, like Easter and Christmas, are important for the growth of a church. You get to meet a lot of guests and then follow up with them after they visit. You also get a visual picture of what your church can look like a year down the road on an average Sunday.

We may not consider ourselves superstitious, but humanity is fearful to the core, and what is superstition but an attempt to harness our fears into orderly submission?

Which symptoms of emotionally unhealthy spirituality stand out to you as the ones you struggle with the most?

Frankly, once upon a time, those pictures of poverty and suffering would make me cry. Sadly, however, and for too long, I was suffering from something known as compassion fatigue, and it’s a real thing.