Saturday Lagniappe: 'Question: Is Your Church a Ministering Church?' and More

Question: Is Your Church a Ministering Church?
This article's questions focus on your church’s ministry and service. Use these questions to assess your congregation.

Leading Your Church Through Change
Whenever churches move forward with changes, it is the pastor who must lead the way.

How Churches Can Create a Culture of Life in Their Communities
If you are concerned about creating a culure of life in your community, you do need to focus upon a broad set of concerns related to the quality of life of the elderly, the disabled, the poor, the intellectually-impaired and other groups in the communityas well as the unborn child in unplanned pregnancies and not dismiss them solely as pro-choice concerns. Euthenasia, assisted suicide, food insecurity, and a number of other issues should be our concern as well as abortion.

Five Strategies for Being a More Approachable Pastor on Sunday Morning
Sunday morning is an essential time when when people will develop perceptions about a pastor.

How To Modernize Your Church

Why not bring your church into the 21st century by updating the tech equipment that is used?

5 Steps to Create a Discipleship Plan
Discipleship is best viewed as a long-term, planned process, and that plan must be communicated and championed with consistency. The church cannot assume people know where they are on the discipleship pathway. Nor should church leaders assume people always know what their next step should be.

Beware the Complacency of “Once Saved, Always Saved”
If we see that God was willing to cut off branches from his own original tree because of their unbelief, why would we (who have been grafted somewhat unnaturally into this Jewish tree) ever think we can get away with the very things that got them removed?


Be Half Monk and Half Missionary
We are called, like the early disciples, to be half monk and half missionary.

More White Evangelicals Are Vaccinated Than You Might Think, but Still Less Than Other Groups
Most of the people in my region who become infected with the viru are unvaccinated. When omicron became the predominant strain in my county, the number of new cases jumped.