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Articles for Outreach & Missions
7 Common Reasons Churches Have a Dramatic Decline in Attendance
We consider a church to be in dramatic decline when the average worship attendance drops by 20 percent or more in three months or less.
Articles for Children's Ministry Leaders
Because One Day Your Kids Will Stop Bugging You (Really)
What do you do if your kids think Minecraft is more interesting than you?
Articles for Small Group Leaders
How Long Should Your Small Group Meeting Last? (You Might Be Surprised)
Wondering how to structure a good small group meeting? Over the years I’ve surveyed thousands of small group leaders to uncover the key elements that produce vital, growing groups. And I found some surprising results.
Articles for Pastors
There’s One of These in (Almost) Every Church
Young pastors enter the ministry expecting the people of the Lord to be healthy, sane, balanced, spiritual, biblically informed and Holy Spirit guided. And then they run into reality.
Articles for Pastors
15 Ways to Encourage Your Pastor
I asked pastors to share specific ways someone in their congregation ministered to them. I probed how people could (and did) encourage them. Here’s a sample of what they wrote. If you are not a pastor, consider doing one or two of these this week to encourage your pastor.
Worship & Creative Leaders
Jim Carrey’s Artistic Rendition of the Face of Jesus is Amazing
"I wanted you to have the feeling when you look in his eyes that he was accepting of who you are. I wanted him to be able to stare at you and heal you from the painting.”
Christian News
Vatican to American Catholics: Do Not Join Fundamentalist Evangelicals in ‘Ecumenism of Hate’
What unites these groups is a “nostalgic dream of a theocratic type of state”—a state in which “walls and purifying deportations” rid it of enemies such as Muslims.
Articles for Worship & Creative
Why We Need More Courageous Worship Leaders
Momentum rises and falls on leadership.
