Articles for Outreach & Missions

Have you ever Googled “is it okay for a Christian to . . . ” and then filled in the blank with everything from watching Game of Thrones to cremation, attending a gay wedding to getting a tattoo, practicing yoga to drinking wine?

Don’t be a stranger to the cross. You cannot afford to live a life that isn’t fully committed to the cause of Christ.

It's difficult to lead because leadership is the tension between the comfort of where we are and the potential of where we could be.

A body has many members. When one member is absent, there’s something incomplete about the body. So make it a point, a deliberate point: going to church with your congregation.

Trust me – the senior members in your congregation or donor database were cool before you were born, so give them a break. Trust them.

Every ministry in your church will naturally drift toward misalignment. In other words, your staff and ministries will eventually pursue their own purposes—not the mission of the church. Let's talk staff alignment.

If you’re going to communicate with other Christians, you need to memorize our code words and their definitions. What exactly are these code words? I’m glad you asked. What follows is a guide to understanding Christianese. Think of this as the Rosetta of the Christian world.

To the Women Who Wish Their Husbands Were Spiritual Leaders - You look at him and see apathy. Laziness. It makes you sad, but mostly it makes you angry. You can see so clearly what he needs to be doing. Why won’t he just do it?