Articles for Outreach & Missions

Every ministry in your church will naturally drift toward misalignment. In other words, your staff and ministries will eventually pursue their own purposes—not the mission of the church. Let's talk staff alignment.

If you’re going to communicate with other Christians, you need to memorize our code words and their definitions. What exactly are these code words? I’m glad you asked. What follows is a guide to understanding Christianese. Think of this as the Rosetta of the Christian world.

To the Women Who Wish Their Husbands Were Spiritual Leaders - You look at him and see apathy. Laziness. It makes you sad, but mostly it makes you angry. You can see so clearly what he needs to be doing. Why won’t he just do it?

The best part of teaching women’s bible study they have previously studied is that it holds the teacher accountable not to “wing it.”

The recent climate has given way to a mass exodus from churches, mostly for terrible reasons people leave church.

Today, Derwin Gray calls upon the name of Jesus because the "Naked Preacher," a linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts, made evangelism great again. Here are five ways we can also.

None of us are perfect, but that doesn’t mean we are to withhold honor from people who are dishonorable.

A while back, I said “that’s it” and began to unfriend crazy Christians “friends” like I was on crack. Since I thought that you, my dear friends, might want to do the same, I took notes.