Outreach & Missions How To's

It would be easy to focus exclusively on our local churches in this difficult season, but recently the International Missions Board of the SBC listed practical ways we can support missionaries during these trying times.

Sharing the Gospel is like flying an airplane. You want to take off smoothly, have a solid flight plan, know how to deal with emergency situations and then, of course, land safely.

At the end of the day, the church is all about helping people meet Jesus. Growing churches make decisions based on who they are trying to reach, not who they are trying to keep.

If you actually care about Easter guests and irregular church attendees because you believe they matter to God, you might consider doing just the opposite of this list.

An outreach strategy uses advertising to help us tell the message of the church and the Christ of the church.

Real transparency between fellow sisters (and brothers) in Christ is much deeper and much more difficult than what we commonly practice. Being transparent in ministry is painful, embarrassing, humbling work, for the teller as well as for the hearer.

Fresh ideas to strengthen and liven up your community.

Growing larger isn’t the most beautiful part of our story. It’s that we’ve managed to spread out and multiply by planting churches.