Saturday Lagniappe: College Students - The Overlooked and the Unreached - and More

5 Reasons Churches Struggle to Reach College Students

The sad reality is that most college campuses are filled with thousands of lost young people who are broken and searching for direction with only a handful of under-resourced college ministries seeking to make an impact on the campus. The harvest truly is plentiful and the laborers are few. Many college campuses in our nation are less than 2% reached, which missiologists would qualify as an unreached people group. Read More

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3 Basic Ways to Care for the Lonely

“Ask God to help you become a welcoming person.” Read More

10 Reasons Even Committed Church Attenders Are Attending Less [Repost]

It comes up in a surprising number of conversations a lot. And no one’s quite sure how to respond to it. The issue? Even committed church attenders are attending church less often. Read More

Why Christians Support Abortion (And How We Can Change That)

Almost 50 years after Roe v. Wade, a new Marist poll shows that When asked to align with one side of the abortion debate, a majority of Americans describe themselves as pro-choice. The disturbing implication is that this means that a large number of those who claim to be faithful Christians are not pro-life. Read More

Even Christians who are opposed to abortion on demand do not always think through the full implications of being pro-life. Being pro-life also entails opposing infanticide, euthanasia, and assisted suicide and supporting a generous immigration policy and an ample social safety net. It sees the inconsistency between calling for a ban on all abortions while permitting food insecurity among vulnerable populations, withholding health care from such populations, and promoting the use of non-renewable energy sources which pollute the environment and shorten human lives. Being pro-life means valuing life in the broadest sense.

Some Men Just Like the Fight

Some men just like the fight. But these are not real men. Real men are willing to fight when it is necessary. Faux men are itching to fight no matter what. Read More

Do You Blame Others For Your Ministry Failures? 12 Ways To Escape This Foolish Trap

I don’t blame anyone but myself for my failures in ministry -- Why are people so surprised by that? Read More

This article and the preceding article prompt an interesting comparison between the kind of leadership that we might expect from Christian leaders and the kind of leadership that a number of top political leaders are offering our nation. The latter are too eager to pick fights and to blame others for their mistakes. They indulge in conduct that Christians who are committed to live by the standards Jesus set in his teaching and by his example should find abhorrent.

How Church Leaders Can Effectively Lead Through Today’s Divisive Political Climate

If we drift too far from our core purpose, it can seem like we’re walking in a field of land mines hesitant to take the next step because we might blow something up. Read More

VBS: A Time-Tested, Effective Strategy to Combat Cultural Crises

We have an evangelism crisis in our churches. We have a loneliness epidemic in our communities. But we—the Church—have a solution to both of these problems. A solution that’s been in front of faces for decades: VBS. Read More

VBS is not a panacea for today's evangelism crisis and loneliness epidemic but it can be an effective part of a church strategy to tackle these problems.

Is Evangelism on Its Death Bed?

Looking at the current state of evangelism is healthy so we can be brought to an awareness of reality, but shame on us if we recognize our sickness and then do nothing to address it. We have to ask, What will it take to turn this around? Read More

Anti-evangelism sentiment infected the Episcopal Church perhaps as early as the late nineteenth century. It was certainly evident in the 1990s--the so-called "Decade of Evangelism," which many Episcopal clergy treated as a joke. Unfortunately the disaffected Episcopalians who fled the Episcopal Church in the 1970s and later brought this attitude with them into the Continuing Anglican churches. It accounts in part for their slow growth and subsequent decline. Preaching on the importance of evangelism and its inseparable relationship to discipleship can elicit a reaction of guilt and hostility in Continuing Anglican congregations, making the task of turning Continuing Anglican churches around even more difficult than it is.