Control, Growth, Leadership, New ministries, Rick Warren, starting new ministries
To broaden the ministry impact of your church, you will need to make the difficult choice to give up control.
You can choose control, or you can choose growth. But you can’t choose both.
Easter services are among the most important events at your church each year. You not only celebrate the resurrection of Christ, but you also have one of the best opportunities all year to reach new people. Here’s a checklist to help you prepare for the big day.
What can we learn from Nehemiah about handling conflict?
There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth. While we worry about how fast people grow, God is concerned with how well they grow.
Where do you get vision that will propel your church forward?
One of the ways to prepare for sermons is by constantly collecting content—things like news stories or statistics that might make a good illustration, anecdotes and quotes, and Bible verses based on a common theme.
The church’s birth in Acts 2 gives us a great model for how we’ll reach the remaining unreached people groups on the earth. Within the story of these early Christians, we get the biblical foundation for mobilization.
There are three parts to getting God’s vision for your ministry.
Your main job as a leader is to remind your congregation continually of your church’s vision. Everything else you can delegate. You can’t delegate vision.
Discipleship – the process of becoming like Christ – always begins with a decision.
Three effective ways to start moving toward clarity right now.
