Articles for Outreach & Missions

The Danger of Bypassing Your Emotions

Spiritual bypassing simply means that you use spiritual concepts, platitudes, or activities to “bypass” or avoid dealing with your true feelings, especially the hard ones like anger, grief, fear, loneliness, envy, and shame. Here are the dangers.

#1 Reason Why Your Church Isn’t Getting a Bigger Social Media Response

Here’s what you need to know about posting on social media and how to get a robust social media response.

The One Sentence Pastors Hate To Hear

There is one sentence you should never say to your pastor or church staff. Even as the first few words are spoken, the listener feels his or her emotions plummeting.

Desiring God: How to Have Intimacy With God

Our experience of God’s nearness or distance is not a description of his actual proximity to us but of our experience of intimacy with him. This is as true in our relationship with God as it is in our relationships with other human beings.

5 Short-Timers Who Don’t Really Help Church Attendance

There are five types of individuals who are most likely to not stay very long. I’m afraid there is nothing in this article that will help you keep them. But perhaps, if you have advanced warning, their departure won’t hurt so much.

What Does the Bible Say About Domestic Violence?

What does the Bible say about domestic abuse victims? Despite it being a reality within the church, we have largely remained silent on the abuse so embedded in our homes and neighborhoods.

100 Three-Word Posts for Online Outreach

To get your creative muscle amped, we’d like to get you thinking in even shorter bursts of truth for online outreach.

8 Signs You Love Legalism More Than Jesus

Legalism is adding anything to the gospel. Legalism in the church takes the words “Follow me” and adds stipulations, clauses and barriers. Find out the eight signs you love legalism more than Jesus.