How often do you and your leadership team have discussions about connecting and communicating? One of the most glaring issues unearthed during the pandemic was how churches weren’t generally prepared to communicate outside the normal space of Sunday services and worship guides. Our digital age compels us—and allows us—to connect with people at a variety of levels through a number of tools.
Why People Lose Their Religion (and How Churches Can Support Those Struggling with Faith)
Discover the psychological secrets behind why people are leaving behind their faith and quietly quitting church as we sit down with esteemed guests Dr. Aaron McLaughlin and Dr. Daryl Van Tongeren. In our eye-opening conversation, we dig into their recent study “Losing My Religion ,” funded by the John Templeton Foundation, which aimed to understand the religious “dones” (individuals who once held religious beliefs but have since walked away from their faith).
Inexpensive Ideas to Tell Volunteers Thanks: 18 Great Gifts for Helpers
Inexpensive ideas show kidmin volunteers how much you love and appreciate them. Read on to discover 18 practical, heartfelt gifts of appreciation.
Next Generation Evangelism: 6 Necessary Shifts
After scores of similar conversations with unprepared audiences, our team has been shifting its approach to evangelism. By no means are we proposing that we shift away from clear biblical teaching on important truths such as our legal guilt before God. We are merely saying that shifting intuitions may require new starting places in evangelistic conversations and discipleship relationships. Here are six shifts we believe are critical to meaningfully engage the next generation.
Want to Be a Great Commission Christian? Rely on the Holy Spirit
Don’t run ahead of the Holy Spirit. Wait for his power.
The SBC in the Big Easy: What Happened?
In his summary of what happened at the annual meeting of the Souhtern Baptist Convention in New Orleans, Deny Burk neglected to mention that the SBC became the first denomination to make an official statement on the challenges of Artifical Inteligence and to present a theological and ethical grid for dealing with this complex issue.
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