Outreach Leaders

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.