Outreach Leaders

If you follow up with your guests—and you should—there is a question you should ask. It’s a simple question, but one that will reveal a tremendous amount about how your guests felt.

When we read James, we hear the force of Old Testament proverbial language as he describes the destructive power of the tongue. According to James, the tongue is “a fire, a world of unrighteousness.”

Pastor, you may have a large crowd of attendees on Sunday morning—and still not have a congregation. The fact is that the crowd must become a church. People must be assimilated.

If you look at a leader’s fall and think it won’t happen to you, you should be very careful. Those are not my words. Those are from the Bible.

Do you show any of the signs of an unhealthy church? Here are nine signs that your church—even if it's one that believes the Bible, preaches the gospel, and embraces good ecclesiology—might not be doing so well.

The problem is that ego is like a trickle of water—what starts out small erodes the surface a bit, grows in volume and creates a problem before we ever recognize it is happening.

Anxiety comes from unmet expectations, and all three of these ‘unhappies’ start with expectations...

What is great is that we don’t need drugs or alcohol to make life fulfilling. We have a relationship with God.