Outreach Leaders

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.

There is an environment full of opportunities to be offended by people who drive you crazy. How else can we learn to forgive? It’s called “the church,” and it’s filled with people that will drive you crazy.

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:

What difference could a domain name make? Very simply, a great web address is your church’s digital front door that people have to enter through with a tap, or a click—and it represents their first experience with your church.