Enduring and zealous churches are on a spiritual and strategic journey. They willingly take a fresh look at their journeys during a sabbatical every seven years. Then every 50 years, they observe a year of jubilee.
To effectively reach and engage the community, let’s look into some trends — based on talking with hundreds of churches — that might shape the way churches communicate in the coming year …
“How do we help immigrants and refugees coming to the region? How do we have more of a multicultural presence? … That’s what I’ve been praying about.” —Joe Souza of the Baptist Churches of New England
Whether it’s for website content, social media posts, email communication, your bulletin or submissions to publications, choosing the right photo format is crucial.
Buck Run Baptist Church opened their hearts and pocketbooks and gave $116,000 to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering — $100,000 on Sunday and another $16,000 on Monday — and the motivation was amazingly simple.
Nearly 50 people have been baptized at Temple Baptist Church Hattiesburg, Mississippi, this year. Since August 2013 Temple has held annual outdoor baptisms on the church property or at the local football stadium, filling large tanks …
Does the Christmas season ever privately make you think “Oh, wow” versus “Yay?” Here are some ways to help you get through the busyness of the Christmas season.
“There are a lot of good quality young people who are being responsive to the gospel and obedient to the Lord’s calling on their lives,” the young adults minister said. “They are embracing the need to share Jesus and be disciples.”
A spiritless church is a remnant group of members who are so spiritually myopic that they cannot see the new thing God might do in or through them. There are many of them, but here are some solutions.
Like a lot of Christians, I have a complicated relationship with the reality of spiritual warfare. If I label a trial or struggle as such, isn’t that a little presumptuous?
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