5 Steps To A Healthier Church
Healthy churches aren’t unicorns. Healthy churches exist, and you can be a part of one. Maybe you are part of […]
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Church Revitalization
A Good Snake Is A Dead Snake
Routines can be very good things. My morning routine helps me to make sure I don’t leave home without the
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Worship Isn’t Supposed to Be Safe
As we continue to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, churches all over the U. S. are beginning to return to worship
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10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Attend Church Regularly
Do you need the church? Many people like to make the argument that they don’t need the church to love
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7 Steps For A Deeper Connection With Your Church
People often tell me that they want to get more out of their church or that they want to feel
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11 Steps to Reach the Next Generation
On any given Sunday morning, one-third of the attenders at Malvern Hill are 18 years old or younger. We are a medium sized church on the edge of a small city. Currently, we average around 300 in worship, and you can almost guarantee that if we have 300 in worship this Sunday, 100 of them will be 18 or under. There are unique challenges that come with being a church filled with young people–primarily that those who are 18 and under do not normally tithe– but there are of course incredible blessings. Young people bring life and joy and they are the present and the future of the church.
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An Inconvenient Southern Baptist Truth: Discipleship Matters
Discipleship is hard and it is time-consuming. The results of discipleship are often discovered over years, not weeks and months, but discipleship is not an option for followers of Jesus, it is an expectation. It is the Great Commission. We have to speak up for intentional discipleship and create pathways for disciples to grow. We have to make discipleship an expectation of attenders and a part of the core DNA of our churches. We have to speak out against the idols in our culture that keep us from discipling and being discipled and we have to stand on the solid truths of God’s Word, even when it isn’t popular.
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5 Pastoral Necessities for Church Revitalization
Church revitalization is all the buzz in evangelical church life these days. Mark Clifton says a healthy or revitalized church is “one that has a reputation for making disciples who make disciples and whose community is noticeably better because of the existence of the church.”
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