posted Thursday, August 19, 2010
As a grassroots agent of outreach, I like to naturally connect with people. Often, this progression of relational evangelism is good and fruitful, but sometimes it can impair the supernatural move God desires to make at any given moment.
The first time I experienced this miracle was in the late ‘90s. Fresh out of college, I moved to Atlanta …
posted Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Mark DeYmaz is the founding pastor of Mosiac Church of Central Arkansas, author of Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church and co-founder of the Mosaix Network. Mark’s recently published second book, Ethnic Blends, addresses some of the unique challenges faced by multi-ethnic churches. Urthling, David Swanson, spoke with Mark about the theology and challenges of multi-ethnic ministry.
In the …
posted Thursday, August 12, 2010
A dialogue continues among researchers about the differences between managers and leaders. It is clear that there is overlap between the two roles. It is equally clear that some managers do not lead, and some leaders do not manage. A helpful (but ultimately inadequate) distinction is that managers deal with maintaining consistency in the here and now, while leaders work to change the future.
Pastors of congregations …
posted Thursday, August 05, 2010
I hate meetings - no question. I’m a believer that most meetings could happen in 5-10 minutes, but even most scheduling programs like Outlook, iCal, or Google Calendar schedule meetings in 30-60 minute blocks. But let me go one further - stop having meetings in the conference room and start meeting at the place where the problem lives. Meeting at the location of the problem allows everyone to …
posted Tuesday, August 03, 2010
“Evangelism is the activity in which the entire Church prayerfully and intentionally relies on God in sharing gospel love and truth, in order to bring people one step closer to Jesus Christ.”
The entire Church. The Church is the Body of Christ. As such, we extend hope to the world by communicating the message of Jesus’ death and resurrection. Gospel outreach is not simply one ministry option among many—something that only a …