The Intentionally Welcoming Church
Small or large, every church has the important responsibility of receiving visitors. When someone visits your church for the first time, what is their experience? Welcoming visitors is rarely discussed, and very few churches have plans in place to make sure it happens, but it is a deficiency worthy of a remedy. Read More
8 Phases of Moving Guests from Anonymity to Community at Your Church
I’m a firm believer that churches need to think in steps, not programs. We need to think about how we’re moving people from where they are to where we want them to be, and if everything we do doesn’t help them make one step closer on that path, we need to reevaluate what’s working and what’s not. In this post, I’ve attempted to outline what I think are the eight phases that every guest who comes to our church needs to move through, in order to transition from complete anonymity to deep community. Read More
What Makes a Great Campus Pastor?
The campus pastor role is the most important factor in the success of a multisite campus. Here’s why. Read More
Why It’s a Good Thing We’re a Work in Progress
Though our ministry work is never done, God uses it to complete us. Read More
Prayer: How Praying Together Shapes the Church [Podcast]
On the latest episode of the Equipping You in Grace Podcast, Dave Jenkins and John Onwuchekwa discuss the importance of corporate prayer in the life of the Christian and local church, along with his book, Prayer: How Praying Together Shapes the Church (Crossway, 2018. Listen Now
God Wants You to Ask Again
God wants you to ask again — for healing, for reconciliation, for salvation — because God loves to reveal his strength and wisdom and worth again. And because he loves you. And because he loves you, he wants you to see and experience more of his glory. In prayer — in what we ask by faith — we ask to see more of him. Read More
Why You Cannot Follow Jesus as a Muslim
The outward forms (i.e., duties) of Islam—including communal fasting and sacrifice, the way in which one prays (five times a day, toward Mecca), and especially the confession that there’s no god but God (“Allah” in Arabic) and Muhammad is his messenger—are truly consequential. Quite simply, Islam sets out to correct (and effectively replace) the biblical Jesus, in the name of submission to an unknowable God, as advocated by Muhammad. Remaining faithful to all this and following Jesus at the same time is impossible. Read More
What Are Evangelicals Afraid of Losing?
President Trump’s appeal to fear ignores that Christians seek first the Kingdom, not political favors. Read More
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