Key question: Have you built a ministry that builds up people to be better servants of the Lord? Take your time. Think about all of the people who serve under you. Let things play back in your mind. We need people experiencing edification. We need people being built up within our midst. We need to [...]
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Extreme Experiences of Edification
Posted in activities, church, community, discipleship, innovations, leadership, ministry, pastors, small groups, stewardship, street ministry, works on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Get People Back into Church
Posted in church, leadership, ministry, outreach, relationships, revival, strategy on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? – Luke 5:4 (NKJV) Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, [...]
Righteous Responsibility
Posted in calling, church, commandments, stewardship, tagged calling, church, community, discipleship, fishers of men, glory, help, ministry, outreach, relationship, service, work on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“More people are coming to Christ now than at any other time in history.” – Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Church The church has a real responsibility. It is revealed in the Word of God. It is real work. It amounts to the work of people. People make up the church. Therefore, the work of [...]
Pastors and Political Involvement
Posted in America, believers, church, community, preaching on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For Herod himself had sent men who arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her. For John had been telling Herod, ‘It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.’ And Herodias had a grudge against him, and wanted [...]
Mentoring as Your Ministry
Posted in church, discipleship, growth, leadership, methods, ministry on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women [...]
Pointed Prayer
Posted in church, inspiration, prayer, service on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Wednesday night. You can see them coming into the sanctuary. They have been beaten down and broken down by the business of the day. The boss didn’t understand. The kids aren’t listening. The neighbors don’t care. You’re the shepherd of the house of God and this worn-out flock. What do you do? Offer that [...]
Doing by Being
Posted in church, tagged calling, church, Word on December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“We cannot do until we are.”- Chuck Colson Doing and being are not the same thing, especially when it comes to the body of Christ. In The Body, Chuck Colson and Ellen Vaughn share some insights on the state of the church as well as the calling of the church with support from the Scriptures and [...]
5 Magazines for Ministry Leaders
Posted in church, leadership, ministry on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have been serving in ministry for nearly 15 years now. I have served as a ministry leader for at least 10 years. I have served as a leader on the church staff for just over 8 years now. In all of these combined years of varied experience, I have learned a lot. I have [...]
Who Are We
Posted in Christianity, church, revival, tagged calling, church, community, grace, redemption, sacrifice, salvation, theology on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? – 1 Corinthians 3:16 (NIV) Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; - 1 Corinthians 6:19 (NIV) In [...]
