How to Respond to Abuse in the Church
Abuse is sickening and is wrong. Any tricked, forced, manipulated or coerced activity for the pleasure of the abuser is satanic.
Leadership
10 Quotes from Ordinary Radicals on Discipleship
If a church’s strategy is not grounded in making disciples, the church has abandoned the mission Christ has given.
6 Reasons Why Pastors Refuse to Make Disciples
Tricking ourselves of engaging in discipleship by simply talking about it has forsaken the mission and purpose as a church.
Four Different Types of Pastoral Leadership Style
Choosing the right system for the right type of leadership is crucial.
4 Development Process for Effective Disciple Makers
Jesus didn’t take these men and immediately throw them into leadership. Jesus instead walked with them, prayed with them, and disciple them. In order to make disciples as Jesus did takes hard work, it requires grip, nurturing time, requires emotional intelligence, capacity, and fortitude.
The Secret to Multiplication Movements
The first twelve disciples empowered by the Holy Spirit and commissioned by Jesus, transformed the whole world.
Spiritual Abuse in the Church
Dietrich Bonhoeffer even said it well, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
Aren’t Christians Supposed to Follow Christ?
The word “Christian” does not mean “one who admires Christ,” nor “the recipient of Christ’s blessings,” nor even “one who believes in Christ.”
Top 5 Most Popular Articles of 2017
For quantity doesn’t always correspond to quality, especially on the Internet. However, sometimes, articles that have a broad readership indicate that a powerful idea or formative truth has been shared.
3 Emerging Needs in Building a Strong Discipleship
Discipleship is not simply staffed by elite paid clergy by the few for the few. Instead, it is God’s call for all the saints (priesthood of believers) to biblically counsel and disciple all.
25 Greatest Christian Discipleship Quotes
“Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.” ― David Platt, Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
Toxic Leader: The Bully Shepherd and Wounded Sheep
The word “toxic” comes from the German “toxikon” which means “arrow poison”. In a literal sense, the term in its original form thus means to kill (poison) in a targeted way (arrow).
Five Ways to Cultivate a Culture of Discipleship
Jesus envisioned that the victory would be won through witnessing and he depended on the faithfulness of his chosen disciples to this task. That was his only plan. His concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes, but men were to be His method of winning the world.
Five Deadly Signs of an Unhealthy Church
“Just because a church is large doesn’t mean it’s healthy. It could be swollen.” – Charles. H. Spurgeon
4 Myths About Disciple-Making
If your ministry has a leadership problem it has a discipleship problem. You can’t make disciples and not develop leaders.
4 Reasons Why Most Discipleship Plans Fail
Does your church have an intentional development plan to disciple and deploy believers to live out the Great Commission?
The Detrimental Sin of Gossip
Gossip is one sin that seems to fall in the spiritual “No-Man’s Land” like the awkward uncle around that Thanksgiving table that nobody wants to talk to or deal with; a passivity that many tolerate that widespread and eats us up like a cancer. It seems impossible to deal with it so instead we just kind of shove it under the carpet and pretend the big elephant is not in the room.
3 What’s NOT Church Membership
Gathering of the saints needs to be one of the top priority of Christ followers, in fact it is crucial and essential to the faith! For the good of their own soul, for the mission of Christ, and for the health of local congregation.
Warning Signs of Leadership Burnout and 2 Ways to Recover
The reality is this; The majority of people who start in ministry don’t finish in ministry. Too often, ministry leaders are simply on autopilot. If you’re on a leadership position and your goal is to just to survive you’re facing a burn out. The goal of leadership is not to survive. The goal of leadership is to help you thrive.
Leadership Multiplier Effect
If we don’t have a clear vision that drives us, chances are a maintenance mode rather than multiplication mode. True success in our lives as leader is growing those who are following us.
4 Warnings Signs of Leadership Failure
We believe everything rises and falls on culture and culture rises and falls on the leader. So as christians leaders in our culture the fundamental question we must ask is, “Am I really leading?”
3 Essential Marks of a Church That Most People Ignore
One of the lessons we can learn from the evangelical movement is that its central weakness was not epistemological. Its central weakness was not its commitment to the core doctrines of the Christian faith. It’s central weakness was ecclesiological – an undervaluing of the local church in particular. – Albert Mohler
Conflict Is Not The Problem, Avoiding Conflict Resolution Is
According to a study done by Focus on the Family, fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to spiritual burnout or contention in their churches.