The team at Barna, alongside some friends and partners, including Gloo, the parent company of Outreach, Inc., have spent the better part of a year crafting an outline for how your church can make disciples, and we call it the Thriving Church framework.
All Together Now
Kevin Harney offers four practical ways to be a witness in how we think about, speak of and interact with other Christian congregations. His prayer is that we step into some of these practices and become a witness to our community of what the family of God is supposed to look like.
Want to Reach the Next Generation? Love the Church.
"If I asked you to name the most controversial Christian teaching today, what would you say? Some might say LGBT+ issues, some Jesus’s divinity, some the doctrine of eternal punishment. My answer might be unexpected: the necessity of the church."
4 Common Marketplace Leadership Sayings That Don’t (Fully) Apply in Ministry
... there are some marketplace leadership insights (even ones that are widely accepted as wise) that don’t translate fully and should not be applied to a local ministry context. The ministry leader is wise to look at all learnings from the marketplace through the lens of God’s Word and His heart for His Church. Here are four common marketplace leadership sayings that don’t fully apply in local church ministry....
Communion Partners Bishops — Louisville Statement, September 2024
Communion Partners has its origin in the controversies over human sexuality in the Anglican Communion that arose in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The Communion Partners Bishops Group, with members from both the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church in Canada, has worked for the continued coherence of the Anglican Communion, and supported the Church’s traditional teaching on marriage. It has also affirmed our continued role and participation in TEC and in the ACC. Communion Partner Bishops have offered Statements about developments in our respective Churches from time to time, collected on our website. This Statement, following the Episcopal Church’s General Convention this summer, and signed by a number of Episcopal Bishops, is the latest offering.
UMC's highest court to determine how churches can leave denomination
The United Methodist Church’s highest court will soon determine whether congregations can continue to leave the denomination in response to its progressive stance on LGBT issues. From 2019 to 2023, around 7,500 congregations used a temporary provision in the UMC Book of Discipline to disaffiliate from the denomination in response to its debate over sexual ethics. The United Methodist Judicial Council has been asked by the Kentucky and Alabama-West Florida conferences about whether another provision in the Book of Discipline can be used to exit the denomination.
How Mainline Protestant churches are addressing Christian nationalism
Without question, some Mainline Protestant denominations have been at the forefront in equipping and inspiring their congregations to address this issue. But others have slow-walked engaging in this conversation.
5 Mistakes Pastors Make when Planning Staff Retreats
Meetings, and extended ones like retreats, often don’t achieve their intended purpose. Why? Because we make significant mistakes when we plan them. Consider these five mistakes and potential corrective measures.
Prepare Your Church Facility for Winter Today
In this article Eric Spacek, assistant vice president of Risk Control for Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I., shares some important guidelines organizations should follow to protect their people and facility when the temperatures get low.
Leaders as Shepherds, Servants and Stewards
When engaging in leadership processes such as strategic planning, problem solving, and change management in times of disruption, these principles must be borne in mind: the leadership focus is on people and their purpose to glorify God; the leadership heart is that of a shepherd; the leadership attitude is that of a servant; and the active expression of the servant attitude and shepherd’s heart is stewardship.
Running on Empty: Stop Burnout Before It Starts
Burnout isn’t just coming for entrepreneurs, night shift nurses, under-resourced teachers or overworked CEOs—it is coming for pastors. The pressure to care for everyone while delivering fresh, innovative results is taking its toll.
The Way Many Christians Pray
Chuck Lawless thinks out loud about some “strange” ways that many Christians pray....
Four Practical Reasons for Small Groups
"We may attract attenders through preaching, but disciples are made in small groups," explains Rick Warren. "When you’re leading a campaign, like 40 Days of Prayer, or anytime in the future as you lead your congregation toward a deeper relationship with Jesus, you’ll want to explain to your members why small groups are so important to spiritual growth and why they are more than just a Bible study.""Small groups provide the kind of accountability and support we need to mature as believers, so I want to give you four reasons why they are important to your congregation."
The 10 Building Blocks of Biblical Community (Part 1)
There are at least ten building blocks of biblical community. In parts 1 and 2 of this article Rick Warren identifies these ten building blocks.
Also See: The 10 Building Blocks of Biblical Community (Part 2)
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