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14 questions to determine if you’re an effective pastor
	This is for pastors of all shapes and sizes. Answer the questions in your own launguage and face the facts about your ministry efficacy as seen through a 90 years young colleague's eyes. It's brutal! I had a chance to spend 48 hours with a dear …
10 Differences: Church Fundraising Campaigns vs. Creating a Generosity Culture
	In providing generosity materials to thousands of churches and training thousands of pastors we have discovered there is a major shift going on in how churches want to approach generosity issues. For many decades, if you wanted to increase giving …
Review of Transforming Churches In Rural America by Shannon O’Dell
	Sometimes a book just takes over your soul and causes you to resonate in places you thought no one else understood. That's what Shannon O'Dell's book, Transforming Church in Rural America has done for me. While I have only been the senior pastor of …
Review: Doctrine - What Christians Should Believe
	Mark Driscoll's name on anything has become a lightning rod for opinion – most of it before a word has been read. While at times he seems edgy, at the heart we see a man after God's heart seeking to reach his generation. As an evidence of his …
Why Young Adults Are Leaving the Faith (And How to Bring Them Back)
	Ask any denominational rep and you will hear pretty much the same thing: "That church is predominantly filled with adults who are in their 50's and above." Sometimes it's "in their 60's" and not so infrequently you will hear, "They are mostly in …
God is Always Going and Sending!
	How many times have you read the New Testament book of Acts and wondered, "Why doesn't that look like my church?" Struggles with creating a "missional heart" in our flock seem to bring constant frustration to many a pastor and church leader. Dave …
A Caution on "Being Missional"
	As an instructor at Wesley Seminary (Marion, IN), I teach a class called "The Missional Church." It is a joy to see "lights go on" in the hearts of students when they are reminded of the priority for believers to share the message—and …
Gentrification and the Church
	This week I attended a seminary class that concluded with a tour of the city's revitalized neighborhoods. As a class, we contrasted the various ways the course content was reflected in the city's evolving history, infrastructure, and demographics …
Book Review: The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle
	I would commend The Great Emergence to anyone interested in understanding "how Christianity is changing and why." In succinct fashion, author Phyllis Tickle invites readers into a conversation that provides "an anchor point of understanding how …
Book review: ChurchMorph, by Eddie Gibbs
	This review will be published in the next issue of the Great Commission Research Journal. Whether you are emerging, missional, mainline or traditional, you cannot escape the context of changing culture. The Western world is leaving yesterday behind …

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