Outreach Leaders

5 Reasons Church Organizational Changes Fail

The change is a substitute for dealing with people issues.

7 Ways We Put a Not Welcome Sign on Our Church

"None of us would purposely place a 'Closed for Business' sign on our churches—so we must be careful we haven’t done so by our unintentional actions."

Leadership Evangelism: How Your Church Can Double in Three Years (or Less)

Leadership Evangelism is the process by which senior pastors single-handedly ignite a movement within their church that will cause it to double in size in three years or less.

7 Common Reasons Churches Have a Dramatic Decline in Attendance

We consider a church to be in dramatic decline when the average worship attendance drops by 20 percent or more in three months or less.

3 Ways the Gospel Might Divide a Church

A curious thing happens when a church and its shepherds are committed to this radical notion of gospel-centrality.

There Are Souls to Be Saved: How Can We Rest?

“Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans."

Your Faith Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Real

The Bible is full of people whose lives were defined by acts of faith, yet they were deeply flawed.

David Platt: Mission Has Been the Purpose of Our Lives from the Beginning of History

David Platt, President of the International Mission Board, tells us that the call to missions began much longer before Matthew’s Gospel.