Effective ministry begins when you as a church, or when you as a church leader, can give definition to the "how" of ministry. You need to have some strategies. It is one thing to understand who you are as a church and the God-given purposes that He has called to do live out in and through your church. When you as a church know your mission, vision, and core-biblical-values you can answer the 'who' and 'what'...
On our lounge table there sits a chess board. But I seldom take out the chess pieces out of their drawers. Why? Because I have not yet mastered strategy in chess. I am told that great chess players can glance at a position and quickly assess which side is winning. Not only that, but they can also determine the best moves and ideas for each side. Chess strategy is the purposeful attempt to gain an advantage...
How would you describe your prayer life? For many of us, we might find it hard to pray. Perhaps you do not know how to pray. You might have learned how to pray as a child, or recite the Lord's prayer, but with the passing of years you find praying not a delight, but a struggle. Besides, the pace of our modern life leaves little time to pray. And then there is the doubt. You wonder whether...
How important is prayer in your life? In your marriage? In your family? What about in the life of your church? If people were to meet you, or drop into your church on a Sunday, would they notice a prayerful urgency in your life and that of your church? In our missional strategy to reach the lost for Christ we maintain that prayer is our first task. So it is no wonder, then, as we consider...
How does one keep going in life and in ministry? Both personally and as congregations? If only it was as easy as putting an Energizer battery into our ministry or church sockets! Perhaps you have seen (or remember) those images of the Energizer bunny. While others quickly run out of steam, the Energizer bunny just keeps going and going and going .... The tasks of church ministry are not easy! Church life is not always a...
