Articles for Outreach & Missions
Why Good People Fight Change
People fight change by tending to band together and attack anything new. Sometimes they’re supported by an old style union, their knowledge of company rules, or traditional grants and funding models.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
5 Reasons People Are Drifting From Church
There’s a big difference between missing a Sunday and disconnecting from your church. There are key reasons people are drifting from church.
Church Planting
Church Planting in Inner-City Contexts: 3 Tensions To Navigate
There is a misnomer in church planting, and it’s this: inner-city church planting is just a subset of the broader church planting movement.
Outreach Leaders
The Cobra Effect: How Leaders Can Avoid Unnecessary Bad Decisions
Also known as “perverse incentives," the Cobra Effect is when leaders make situations worse after their decisions cause unintended consequences.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
Our Lord’s Surprising Secret to the Power of Prayer
After Jesus provided a sample prayer, he continued with seven simple words that can forever change our ideas about the power of prayer.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
10 Things That Your Missionary Will Not Tell You
Ask a missionary about some of these things sometime. You will not read about these challenges in the support letters you receive from your missionary friends.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
God Loves to Use Average People
I sobbed with relief and gratitude; my long search for identity and purpose had found an answer. It was God who had chosen me to be an average, ordinary woman. Discover more about how God loves average people in this article.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
7 Truths About Following Jesus That Will Change Your Life
Following Jesus no longer seems like an impossibility. Now it feels like God is empowering me to do it!