Articles for Pastors

What should growth look like? How does it look different for various sizes of churches?

Pastors are learning just how helpful and important these church members are. I hope we’ll continue to delegate post-COVID, but I’m not sure we will. Here’s why we pastors struggle with delegation.

Joe McKeever: "There seems to be a lot of pain out there in the pastor/member relationship."

So, trembling teacher, it’s good to feel the weight of your responsibility. It’s good to realize that this work shouldn’t be taken lightly. Preparing to teach should be a careful and diligent process, one that is steeped in prayer and study and conscientiousness.

As leaders, we must move as quickly as we can to the transformer stage. We must believe that there are great moments in the midst of the constraint. We must be learners in this season.

Look at the methods of the master communicator, Jesus.

Pastor David Platt has a challenge for American Christians: Devote yourselves to prayer. If you are willing to do that, God will move in incredible ways.

Unlike the Jesus and me gospel, putting one’s faith in Christ means more than simply being saved from one’s sins and living one’s own life. When a person receives Christ as Lord, that person’s whole life will be transformed by the mind of Christ.