How does the fruit of patience help us cultivate a sanctifying slowness? How can those pastoring small towns use slowness to their advantage?
The Great Evangelical Disaster
In a recently released Pew Research Center report, almost one third of all Americans expressed an unfavorable view of evangelicals – specifically Pentecostals and Southern Baptists – far exceeding negative views toward mainline Protestants or Catholics.
What Disappearing Churches Do Wrong
Every business on the planet suffers from attrition and must strive constantly to find new customers to replace those relocating, dying or disgruntled. The business which is not attracting new customers will soon be history.
Whether you like it or not, if you’re a church leader, people will eventually leave your church. It’s one of the frustrating realities of church leadership...If you understand why people leave your church, it’ll help you to have better retention. So, what are some reasons that people leave your church?
Doug Fields offers four guidelines for removing a ministry volunteer.
5 Practices that Build Leadership Character to Last for a Lifetime
Good character takes a lifetime to build and a moment to destroy. The temptations we face, plus the pressures we experience, can lure us to deep regret without the discipline of strong character and trusting God to help us do what we cannot do on our own. God helps us, but He expects us to do our part too.
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