#5 Way Your Group Can Connect: Commit For Long Haul
When God can find people like you, who are willing to be diligent with his activities in a city, he gets excited. God blesses...
#4 Way to Connect to Community–Serve Over and Over and…
One of the keys to making a difference in your community is repetition. Granted, it may seem uncreative to repeat projects, even tedious, but...
#3 Way Your Sm Group Can Connect: Hone In On Golden...
You will probably find there are less than five projects that seem to work remarkably in your community. Think of these as your anointed...
#2 Way Your Small Group Can Connect With Your Community
2. Try A Variety of Serving Projects to See What Works.
Serving is a lot like cooking proverbial spaghetti. To see if it’s done...
Mega Church Pastoral Myth #6: “God is more profoundly present at...
A similar myth follows: "Worship is better in the large church setting."
Probable Reality: Music is usually better at megachurches, but music quality does...
Mega Church Pastoral Myth #5: “We are efficiently raising up leaders.”
Probable Reality: Some leaders are coming up through the organization but there is a tight lid on power at the top.
Most top-level leaders in...
Mega Church Pastoral Myth #4: “We’re glad to be free from...
Probable Reality: Large churches have no fewer occasions to deal with disappointing power politics than smaller congregations, it’s just that the location of the...
Mega Church Pastoral Myth #3: “We have an efficient care system...
Probable Reality: It's particularly easy to slip between the cracks at a mega church.
I have heard pastor after pastor declare, “We are going to...
Mega Church Pastoral Myth #2: “We are doing a lot of...
Probable Reality: Little outreach is actually going on here. Most of what is going on is outreach fluff.
It is very difficult to establish...
Six Mega-Church Pastoral Leadership Myths
I spent over 20 years starting, building and leading what became a megachurch in Ohio as you may know. I look back on that...
