Wednesday's Catch: 'Church Budgeting: 5 Ways to Take Care of Your Staff' And More

Church Budgeting: 5 Ways to Take Care of Your Staff
How can your church develop a solid budgeting plan that helps demonstrate your commitment to your pastor and staff?

How Much Money Should My Church Save?
We assume preaching, evangelism, and discipleship are truly spiritual activities while finances are an unfortunate necessity.

Ministry: Convenience or Calling?
God’s call gives us a task that is more than a role or a job. It involves our entire being, not just our gifting or talent in service to the Lord. So, it is a call to being as well as doing.

How to Be More Vulnerable Without Freaking Out Your Church
Vulnerability is a two-edged sword. Many appreciate the honesty of tender leaders revealing their secret struggles. Overshare anxieties, however, and you can disrupt the church with unnecessary angst.

Megan Hill on Why Church Is Good for Kids
Little kids can seem like a swarm, but each one is a unique person and it communicates a lot when adults take notice and simply say hi.

Why Do We Need a Small Group Agreement?
For whatever reason they joined or what they expect, the key to successful group life is a thoroughly-discussed and well-articulated group agreement.

Do You Have to Be Committed to a Local Church to Be a Christian?
The importance of the local church in the life of a Christian is powerfully clear and obvious in the New Testament. Today, however, many Christians minimize the role of local congregations. Sam Rainer asks ThomRainer several questions about this issue in light of Thom’s new book, “I Am a Christian.”

Christians are now a minority in England and Wales: census
For the first time since 1801, when the United Kingdom took its first census, less than half of the population identify as “Christian,” while the share of individuals who say they have no religion has swelled by millions, the latest data from their census show.

Christian population in England and Wales falls below half for first time
The results of the latest Census of England and Wales have been published today, showing a drop in the number of people identifying as Christian.