A Small Church Is Still Part of the Big Mission Don’t let the size of the mission overwhelm your church or distract you from it. The source of the mission is found in Christ alone. What happened in the ten days between Ascension and Pentecost? Between Ascension and Pentecost, the
A Tale of a New Church By Thomas Lambrecht The story of the 2024 General Conference meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the story of a new church being born. Two years ago this month, the Global Methodist Church was born, and it is growing and maturing quickly. This month
20 Truths From ‘Attentive Church Leadership’ “A frog waits for food to come to him, but lizards seek out their food. Churches today need to be more like lizards and less like frogs. Now the call is to go where people live, work, and play with the Good News of
8 Reasons The Church is a Light in a Troubled World Cultivating hope, expressing encouragement, and maintaining an authentically positive spirit are vital to your leadership. People need to sense your optimism as a leader. But that’s not always easy, is it? 10 Church Poisons That Will Kill Any Church
To anticipate the formal expression of gratitude at the conclusion of this essay, I want to say at the outset that I have written this as a response to the invitation tendered by the Synthesis Report of the First Session of the XVI Ordinary Synod of Bishops to offer “theological
Does Your Church Have Churchgoers With Unfulfilled Needs? More than 1 in 4 church switchers say they changed because they had unfulfilled needs in the church (29%). 3 Strategies for Doing Church Online Heidi Campbell, who has studied online churches since the early days of the internet, describes three online
The UM Church Adjusts to Fewer Bishops By Thomas Lambrecht In the aftermath of losing one-fourth of its congregations and members in the U.S., The United Methodist Church anticipates a number of adjustments to its ministry and structure. For example, UM News Service has reported that since 2016, general