Outreach Leaders

We know there is a God-given ideal of what was or could now be when it comes to marriage, yet something tragic happened to make marriage far less than His ideal. So what is the cause of destructive conflict in our relationships? It our own self centeredness. We falsely believe we can be like God.

Lament should be your prayer when grief—of any kind—becomes a part of your life.

I think discipleship is better done in groups, where several people gather to meet with a leader to walk through the discipleship process. This makes a lot of sense when you look at how Jesus does discipleship in the Bible.

The first rule of thumb of church planting: Whatever you do to bring people into the facility must be maintained or they will end up leaving church as fast as they came.

Mission will never fit into your busy schedule. The key is learning to live your whole life as mission, and seeing where that decision takes you and how it shapes your schedule.

Background: Over the last couple months, pastor and author J.D. Greear finished writing a review of the new and much-discussed book Irresistible by pastor...

Jeremiah’s prophecy displays God’s global redemptive mission from beginning to end.

I realize there are other arguments, often theological, against a church having multiple campuses, but one of the most practical arguments has essentially been: “Multiple campuses extends a leader’s personality in an unsustainable way and builds a ministry around one communicator on a screen.”