Outreach Leaders

Is God a Bully? Does the Bible talk about God’s wrath? Yes. But does this mean God is a wrathful being looking to seek and destroy anything that comes in his way? No!

"American Christians still enjoy broad religious protections under the law," says David Curry, president and CEO of Open Doors USA, "and the intensity of what Christians face here pales in comparison to the depths of persecution suffered by followers of Jesus in many places around the world."

Great leaders are in part born, but it’s also learned. Just because you have the instincts for leadership doesn’t make you a great leader. Great leadership is also about cultivating the right habits and disciplines.

Christians want to make the Bible something it isn’t, or they don’t want to admit what it actually could be.

As I’ve worked with churches across the country pondering over these issues, I’ve bumped into these sure signs that are evident in churches that aren’t seeing enough first-time guests arriving at their church.

White supremacy is a disease that has taken life and vitality from more non-white people than we’ve begun to imagine, yet it so often runs rampant like an undetected cancer upon our society.

We have been surprised how difficult it is to fit in and connect at a new church. Here are some tips on how to attract, connect, and retain new attendees with the aim to make your church stickier.

What are we to make of evangelicalism's historical "heroes" who carry with them still a tainted legacy of sin?