Outreach Leaders

10 Signs You Are Living in Your Own Kingdom (and Not the Kingdom of God)

How do you know if you are building your own kingdom and asking God to be a part of it instead of actually building God's kingdom? I believe there are a few questions we need to ask to see whose kingdom we are building.

10 Ways to Honor Dr. King

There are plenty of practical ways to honor Dr. King. Beyond remmbering his legacy on thius special day, we can also honor Dr. King in the following ways.

Thom Rainer: 7 Reasons Why Church Outreach Programs Fail

When I wrote "Autopsy of a Deceased Church," my desire was to demonstrate the terrible consequences and deaths of local congregations when the members are inwardly focused. It's why church outreach Programs fail.

4 Ways Husbands Should Lead

"C.S. Lewis says that in the marriage relationship, men wear a crown, but it is first and foremost one of thorns."

Growing, Healthy Churches Need Protectors and Advancers

If we don’t have protectors we will eventually get into trouble. If we don’t have advancers we will eventually not exist.  

A Novel Approach to Tackling Common Temptations in the Western Church

ChurchLeaders had the opportunity to interview missiologist Jeff Christopherson, asking about his new book and how he hopes it will help pastors break away from the status quo of how church is done in the West.

‘I’m Not Being Fed’ and Other Ridiculous Christian Complaints

If forced to make the decision, our church from day one has decided that we will offend the self-seeking Christian before the spiritually seeking non-Christian. I personally believe you can only strategically choose to offend either the self-seeking Christian or the spiritually seeking non-Christian.

Two Main Principles for Getting the Bible Right

If there are two principles for bible interpretation that should be hammered home time and again, it would be these two: 1) Let Scripture interpret Scripture; and 2) Don’t take verses/passages out of context.