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Small Groups are a Leadership Development Factory

If you need more leaders and even people just to help in your church, you are in good company these days. With low attendance numbers dragging on into the third year since COVID began, the leadership deficit in most churches is bigger than it’s ever been. Small groups are a great catalyst for growing leaders. Every Disciple Can Make a Disciple Sometimes you can get a little triggered when we…

2022 Ministry Forecast: Are You Ready?

Let’s face it: it’s been hard to predict anything in the last two years. I certainly don’t claim to be a prophet, but I am seeing and learning some emerging trends when it comes to ministry during Coronavirus Year Three. You might be noticing some of these things too. Digital Ministry is the Church’s New Front Door You’ve known for a while that people were checking out your church website…

Thinking about the post-COVID church might seem like a little wishful thinking, but I believe we can embrace the lessons learned in the last year and apply them to what’s ahead. Since March 2020, we’ve learned what we can do without. We’ve found some things that were more effective than we ever imagined. We have also discovered that some of the things we thought were so important are simply…

Making Disciples Out of Church-wide Campaigns

Church-wide campaigns are great sprints toward connecting a lot of people in a hurry. But, disciple-making is a marathon, not a sprint. The ultimate goal of groups is to make disciples. Disciples are not the end result of a process. Disciples are crafted. Eventually, the church will want video-based-curriculum-dependent newbies to be able to rightly divide the Word of Truth and facilitate a…

The Martian ou quand l’effet de la science dicte les faits de la fiction…

Seul au monde (Cast Away) est un film de survie à l’échelle insulaire, ce que Seul sur Mars (The Martian) en est un à l’échelle planétaire. Ainsi, dans cette odyssée de l’espace réalisée par Ridley Scott, le nombre de problèmes s’élève à la puissance 10, ce qui oblige l’astronaute joué par Matt Damon à redoubler d’efforts pour tenter de survivre. The Martian adapte le roman de science-fiction…