Articles for Outreach & Missions

Rick Muchow, longtime worship leader at Saddleback Church, offers these suggestions to how to unite a community and make sure you're doing everything you can to make your team into, well, a team.

We should never confuse our musings and scripture meditation as having the authority of the Bible--far from it! But scripture meditation, when used humbly, can be a valuable tool in applying the Bible to our everyday lives.

The first sin of skipping church is the sin of failing to love others.

The good news is that we are not the only Christians to live in a politically divisive time, so thankfully we can learn from those who have gone before us.

We often say "I'll pray for you"—as a common and almost automatic response we give without even thinking. But then we go on our way and forget the prayer request altogether.

In their book, unChristian, my friends Gabe Lyons and Dave Kinnaman wrote a sobering commentary on Christianity’s decline in the West due to departure from the biblical vision to engage a secular world with grace and love. Similarly, Philip Yancey wrote in What’s So Amazing about Grace:

In today’s world, your church’s digital presence allows you to reach people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Here are the five essential ingredients to serve up the best online engagement and connect more people to your church.

The pandemic revealed that digital tools can reach people where they are, and church leaders are realizing that many people would be better served with a hybrid model of church.