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 ...
Why Rooted Is Built on Acts 2 (and What That Means for Your Church)
The early church learned in a hands-on, experiential manner. This wasn’t a classroom-only setting, this was a “now go do these things and grow” setting. This was life-on-life learning, not just con...
6 Mistakes Churches Make When Recruiting Volunteers
Volunteers are not unpaid labor; they are sheep under your care. That means their service should be an avenue for their spiritual growth and not a distraction from it. When we recruit volunteers, w...