Tag: Pastoring
5 Addictions Pastors Need To Overcome (To Grow Their Church In the Future)
By: Carey Nieuwhof You’ve probably learned a lot about yourself in the last year. Crisis does that to you. Crisis isn’t just an accelerator, it’s a revealer, showing you some surprising things about yourself—some good, some not so good. Since COVID struck, church leaders have seen more than a few […]
7 Reasons Your Church Should Merge With Another Church in 2020
By: UnSeminary In this season, many churches have been stalled by their plateaued or declining attendance, while other congregations are thriving and making an impact. 94% of all churches in the country are losing ground against the communities they serve. That means that if this trend continues, the message of […]
Episode 255: Tim Keller on The Vanishing Neighbor & Polarization
by NewChurches.com: In cities today, people are dividing more often than uniting and coming together. In Episode 255 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, we wanted to share snippets of Tim Keller’s talk at our last Church Planting Fellowship Network in November 2017 where he shared 5 trends in urban cities. […]
4 Lies that Cause Pastors to Neglect their Families
by Jaime Owens: The walls of our church’s nursery needed painting. So there I was, on my regular day off with a brush in my hand. A country song I’d never heard before—“The Dollar,” by Jamey Johnson—filled the room as I splashed the first coat of something called Polar Bear […]
“What Do You Want?”: Pastoral Reflections on Faithfulness
by Aaron Menikoff: Ambition is intoxicating. A few years ago I came close—a couple times—to having a book picked up by a premier, academic publisher. I’m not sure what bothered me more: the fact that both publishers ultimately turned me down, or the fact that I cared so much. Even […]
The Loneliness of Church Planting
by John Starke: For the last decade or so, there’s been a deepened interest in urban church planting. Young guys move into big cities with visions of planting “a church for the city.” They want to live in the neighborhoods that many evangelical churches attempted to escape in previous decades. […]
Pastors, Spend Time with Non-Pastors
Most pastors have a rightful desire to train up future pastors. We realize that one day, our ministry will end and we ought be preparing the next generation to take the gospel to the land we cannot go. This focus, however, can lead us to overemphasize pastoral training at the cost […]