5 Responsibilities of Every Small Group Leader
My wife and I just finished a season of leading a small group at our local church. We learned a lot in the seven years we led the group, and let me tell you: we were not the best at it. It was our ...
Rooted Creates an Environment for Life Change
How much can really change in 10 weeks? The average time it takes to establish a new habit is 66 days. For some people, it can take as little as 18 days, while for others it takes months to build a...
3 Mistakes We Make When We Worship
If you visited ten different churches on ten different Sunday mornings, you’d find some fairly extreme differences between what you experience there. Those differences will come in terms of the ins...
9 Ways to Pray for Pastors and Church Leaders in Difficult Seasons
Brokenness abounds, and church leaders—whether they are paid staff or volunteers—are on the front lines of bringing the gospel to bear on the unmaking of the world. Ministry is hard, heartbreaking ...
What Are the 7 Rhythms of Discipleship...and Why Do They Matter?
We’re all being discipled every single day by something. Some of us are discipled by television. More of us are discipled by our phones and our feeds. We are always being formed and shaped by media...
3 Common Practices of the Most Effective Small Group Leaders
We’ve all sat through THAT small group meeting—the one in which only the leader talks, no one makes eye contact, and everyone is surreptitiously checking their phones to see how much longer it’s go...
What Does a “Discipleship Culture” Actually Look Like?
A lot of pastors and church leaders are talking about “discipleship culture” today. We rightly want to create cultures of discipleship in our churches. This is good, of course! But this idea, this ...