Articles for Outreach & Missions

Use Text Message Marketing to Reach Your Church Community

People prefer texting over talking. This is especially true in the United States. That's why you need to consider text marketing.

10 Things It’s Tough to Confess (and, in Fact, to Recognize in Some Cases)

We are to confess our sin to God and trust Him to forgive us (1 John 4:9). My experience as a pastor and professor, though, has shown that some sins are tougher to recognize and confess.

Drunk at a Prayer Meeting

When we come into his prayer meetings drunk – drunk on our ambition, our greed, our resentful grudges, our pornographic imaginations, our self-righteousness.

Whom God Saves, God Seals

And whom God seals, He saves completely and eternally.

How to Reach Out to Your Mormon Neighbors

What's the best way to show Christ's love to our Mormon friends and neighbors?

5 Traits of Churches That Will Build Again

We often talk of the new normal, and that’s a great conversation; we need it, but we can’t wait for it to arrive. We need to lead forward now. We need to build again.

Do You Exercise Like a Nonbeliever?

"Should there be anything distinct about how a Christian exercises?"

3 Ways to Keep Your Church Engaged During a Pandemic

Before the pandemic, online offerings and social media were embraced largely as ways to serve and grow on-campus, in-person events. Now we must think creatively about how acres and parking lots, buildings and fields, can serve the online efforts.