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people
Articles for Pastors
What Pastors Should Look for in Safe People
As you consider the traits you’d look for in a safe person, consider these Scriptures and the guidelines they infer, because these people are often difficult to spot.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
The Most Beautiful People Have Known Defeat
According to world-renowned grief expert, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, “The most beautiful people…are those who have known defeat, known suffering, struggle, and loss, and have found their way out of those depths.”
Articles for Pastors
How Reading People Protects Us and Those We Love From Harm
In his new book, Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell explores why so many of our interactions with strangers go wrong and how we aren't good at reading people.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
5 Essential Steps in Planting a Church or Launching a Ministry
Through the years I have been asked hundreds of times about what I would say are the critical steps in planting or launching a...
Articles for Pastors
5 Stages of Recovery When Toxic People Leave the Church
Pastors and other church leaders are often hesitant to deal with toxicity in the church. I get it. It’s just more conflict, confrontation and possible loss of members.
Articles for Pastors
9 Things to Do When You Have Stopped Loving Your Congregation
The congregation we once loved has brought pain, and it’s hard—if not impossible—to love them now.
Articles for Outreach & Missions
Fear Is Gripping More People in the Church
Over 50 percent of churchgoers indicated that they lived with moderate to significant levels of fear, compared to 20 percent for whom fear was only an occasional experience in their lives.
Articles for Pastors
5 Traits of the Heart People Want From Their Pastor
People want to know that their pastor loves and follows Jesus. As a spiritual leader, your faith must be real.