By Steve Gladen
Creating the right environment for a meaningful small group will make a big difference on each person. To achieve this, you’ll need to find the balance between overpreparing and underpreparing. Overpreparation, although it may seem beneficial, will actually end ...
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Pastors
How to Train Busy Volunteers
Let’s face reality. Leaders and volunteers are the lifeblood of your ministry, but getting them all in one room at the same time for training is next to impossible. And even if they all do show up, different positions require different kinds of training. It’s tough. So tough that ...
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Three Audiences in International Missions
By Scott Logsdon
In international missions, our primary aim is the ongoing spread of the gospel in the world through the establishment and support of healthy churches. Here are three audiences to consider as your church supports international missions.
1. Gospel ...
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3 Things That Keep Christians From Living With a Sense of Urgency
By Michael Kelley
Christians are meant to live with a sense of urgency. Urgency is not panic; it’s not anxiety; it’s not acting before we think; but it is a sense of insistence that requires steady, and often swift, action. Why is that?
The answer, of course, is simple – ...
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Five Ways to Integrate Young Adults into Your Church
By Steven Ackley
The goal for young adult ministry can be explained in many different ways by many different people. Some may say that the aim is to create a space for this demographic to grow together. Some may describe it as a way to reach those in their 20s with the hope of ...
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The Slow and Steady Pace of Discipleship
By Michael Kelley
Most of the mechanisms God uses to transform us into Christlikeness aren’t the big, but the small. They are the series of choices we face day after day. This is how Paul described growing in Christ – not as something exciting, but as a methodical process akin ...
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