Category: Leadership
How to Empower People in Ministry
By Annie Garman: How can we possibly lead well? In my 20 years of ministry experience, I’ve learned that doing it all yourself is not the answer. Even though it might feel slow, we’ve got to learn how to involve others and delegate things. Here are five practical ways to […]
Normalize Bible Reading in Your Life and Leadership
By Daniel Im: Growing up, my favorite sermons were the ones where the preacher would get into the Greek or Hebrew and explain to us common folk what the Scriptures really meant. In the Greek, this word is translated, pistis, and it means… In the Hebrew, this word is translated […]
6 Things That Make Ministry Harder Than It Was A Decade Ago
by Carey Nieuwhof: Ever feel like ministry is harder than it was a decade ago? You’re not alone. I am an eternal optimist when it comes to the church, but I agree that ministry is more challenging than it’s ever been. Understanding why is key to figuring out what to do and how […]
Why We Lose Great Creative People
By New Churches Team: If you’ve been in church for more than a few months, you will hear people say that they are being called to move on to a new place. The truth is, it hurts when people leave. Sometimes losing people is circumstantial. Sometimes losing people is a natural […]
Creating a Culture of Evangelistic Accountability
By Ed Stetzer: Evangelism has the ability to make some of us very uncomfortable. We worry about offending people. We agonize over saying something wrong, unorthodox, or unhelpful that might end up leading someone further from Christ in lieu of closer to him. While we certainly don’t want to share Jesus […]
7 Signs Your Church Is (Finally) Reaching Unchurched People
by Carey Nieuwhof: So as a church leader you have a desire to reach new people with the good news of Jesus. But how do you know your church is really finally (truly) reaching the unchurched? First, you can (and should) use data to find out whether you are attracting transfer […]
Why Pretty Much Every Church Leader Needs Marriage Counselling
By Sarah Piercy: I spent 10 years in the dating world searching for and imagining my perfect husband. My husband spent 3 years married to someone else before he married me. And he’s never casually dated. Ever. (The journey of each of our healing, redemption and love for one another is […]
CNLP 193: Clay Scroggins on How the Digital Disruption is Changing Everything For Churches and Businesses
by Carey Nieuwhof: There’s no question we’re undergoing one of the biggest transformations in history, but the digital disruption that’s happening around us every day has caught most church and business leaders off guard. Clay talks about how large and small organizations are missing out on one of the greatest […]
A False Spiritual Maturity Test For Your Church…and a Better One
by Carey Nieuwhof: One of the frequent criticisms I hear of churches that are trying to reach people who don’t attend church is that they fail to produce ‘disciples’. Honestly, this is a criticism that, off and on, has been levied at our ministry for years. And it bothers me. On a recent […]
Assimilation in Ministry
By Ed Stetzer: For those in church leadership, the issue of assimilation typically comes with questions of effectiveness and strategy. Truth be told, there is no one-size-fits-all plan for assimilation in every church. That said, let me share a few of my thoughts. I’ll start with an analogy that, although not […]