Is Your Church Built on Trust or Distrust?

During this season of the pandemic, I’ve been finishing up my certification as a Church Consultant. I’ve found the online courses to be very insightful and affirming regarding many of the challenges our congregations face- especially in relation to engaging volunteers.   The top barriers identified as keeping churches from...

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What’s Holding People Back from Serving?

Many congregations are struggling to engage people in ministry inside and outside the walls of their church. There can be various things holding them back both internally- within themselves- or externally- other people or situations they are or have been encountering.   Internal forces they may be feeling, believing or...

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Develop Your Church’s Top Resource- People!

God is very clear in his direction to pastors and other leaders in the church. In Ephesians 4:12 he describes the role of pastors and teachers is to prepare, equip, train God’s people for works of service or for ministry, so the body of Christ- the Church (yep, universal church)...

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Christ’s Love Compels Us

“For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.  And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.” 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 What a beautiful verse to meditate...

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7 Stumbling Blocks Keeping Christians from Serving

I’ve found there to be multiple reasons why some people aren’t serving with their church families.  Often it is because they don’t know how, where or why to serve. The church doesn’t have an intentional and consistent system to engage members in active ministry.  Most often they aren’t serving because...

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No One Can Do Everything but Everyone Can Do Something

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God...

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