Last week, we began looking at what makes a healthy church team by starting with the foundation: trust. When people trust one another, they can admit weakness, ask for help, acknowledge mistakes, and stop spending so …
Kingdom Innovation
“New wine needs new wineskins” (Matthew 9; Mark 2; Luke 5). Jesus used this image to prepare his disciples for the radical transformation that would come through his death and resurrection. Old wineskins become stiff and …
What About Love?
Several years ago, I was sitting in a restaurant with a church leader who was working on building a faith formation pathway. As we talked, I asked him how his team defined discipleship. His answer was …
How To Balance Love and Truth
The Gospel of John says Jesus came full of grace and truth (John 1:14), and the apostle Paul urged Christians to speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15). Even so, many churches today are struggling to …
Dealing With Doubt and Deconstruction
As church renewal leaders, we dream of building vibrant, growing churches, but the trend of deconstruction reveals that infrastructure may be fracturing. Young people are increasingly leaving behind the faith in which they were raised, …
The Best Evangelism Strategy
Evangelism has a bad reputation. A recent survey asked Millennials who are active Christians if they thought it was wrong to share their faith with someone of a different faith in the hopes that they …