Today, the typical first-time guest to your church is coming at the end of a long process. It may be their first time through the physical front door, but the actual front door of the church – the first one they entered – was digital.
James Emery White, Leadership Questions, Questions, future of the church
What questions should every church be asking if there were to be a serious conversation about its future?
Religious leaders should lead the way in trust issues like caring, truthfulness, and handling resources responsibly due to the nature of their role – but they don’t. What’s up?
The larger dynamic of our decision to return to one campus just seems to be renewed energy and focus and passion. It was such a pure missional decision, made from a position of already existing health and growth, that it poured even more fuel on the fire.
Digital Trends, James Emery White, Online is changing you, Social Media, Social Media Trends
There are few things more fascinating – and more pressing – to social scientists than to discover what our new digital world is doing to us, particularly the new online world.
Racial division is our culture’s most pressing concern, and it is a deeply biblical and spiritual issue. To not address it would be overlooking the largest elephant in the cultural room. And, I might add, the Christian room.
Active Listening, Active Prayer, Hearing the Word of God, James Emery White, word of God
Hearing a word from God is anything but a passive enterprise. A life led by God is a life that hungers for a word from God. It is a life that will be relentless in pursuit of that word.
There are few things more fascinating – and more pressing – to social scientists than to discover what our new digital world is doing to us, particularly the new online world.
What does a leader do? The answers (and books) are endless. But there are five things every leader must do for the organization they lead.
If people do not think giving to your church is giving to a cause, they need cause-lessons. And you need vision-casting lessons.
Three effective ways to start moving toward clarity right now.
