Long Hollow’s Replicate Ministry offers various downloadable resources at no charge, including Bible reading plans for various age groups, discipleship group starter guides and journaling blueprints, which Gallaty said hundreds of churches use.
He points to fruit of discipleship and Bible engagement at Long Hollow that led, he said, to the highest annual giving in the church’s history. He describes members as more engaged in worship, hungry for more of God, more missional and biblically literate.
“It’s one thing for me to tell someone what I suggest they do in life,” he said. “It’s another thing for them to come face to face with what God expects for them to do in life. When God speaks to them through His Word, because it’s living and active, they have more of a propensity for obeying the Word than obeying a preacher or a leader in the church.”
2022 marks the first year the SBC Calendar has monthly emphases in addition to Sundays focused on individual causes. Other monthly emphases are February: Focus on Christian Unity; March: Focus on North American Missions; April: Christian evangelism; May: Christian education; June: local and state missions and ministries; July: Christian citizenship; August: Christian service; September: next-generation ministries; October: The Cooperative Program; November: Christian compassion; and December: international missions.
