Below I talk with Dr. Jamie Aten about the upcoming Disaster Ministry Conference. Ed: What’s can attendees expect from HDI’s Disaster Ministry Conference? Jamie: The Disaster Ministry Conference will equip church and lay leaders to prepare and care for small localized crises to large national events. When most people hear the word “disaster” they oftenContinue reading “One-on-One with Jamie Aten on the Disaster Ministry Conference”
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Remembering Bob Buford, the Christian Leader’s Leader
Rick Warren, Matt Chandler, and other prominent pastors share how the innovative Leadership Network founder influenced their ministries. A businessman, philanthropist, management coach, and inspirational author, the late Bob Buford worked behind the scenes to build a legacy that quietly extends to some of the most prominent figures, organizations, and megachurches in American Christianity today.Continue reading “Remembering Bob Buford, the Christian Leader’s Leader”
Why I Don’t Sit With My Husband at Church
Five reasons to separate from your spouse—and sometimes your kids—on Sunday mornings. “Are you and Bryan okay?” asked a friend. “Yes, why?” “I noticed you weren’t sitting together in church.” I often hear this question. The answer hinges on the rising need for hospitality in church. Gospel invitation has always been the call of Christ,Continue reading “Why I Don’t Sit With My Husband at Church”
‘Little Girls Need Their Daddy’
Billy Graham’s children are thankful for their father; they just wish he’d been around more. When Franklin Graham was five, his famous father was in Australia for six months preaching at a Billy Graham Crusade. Like many youngsters, “I'd wake up in the morning, go down the hall and crawl into bed with Mama,” FranklinContinue reading “‘Little Girls Need Their Daddy’”
Bob Buford, Founder of Leadership Network and Halftime, Has Died: He Was a Catalyst that Fostered a Movement
Meet one of the most influential men in the church growth movement: Bob Buford. The Church Growth Movement began to lose its mojo. That's not exactly a scholarly word, but you get the point. After a promising start, it began to decline in the 1980s. In 1956, Donald McGavran published a book entitled The BridgesContinue reading “Bob Buford, Founder of Leadership Network and Halftime, Has Died: He Was a Catalyst that Fostered a Movement”
Ralph Winter’s Missions Campus Secures a Buyer
Pasadena property of former US Center for World Mission will become an international boarding school, pending a final sale next year. Ralph Winter, late founder of the US Center for World Mission (USCWM), drew experts to its longtime headquarters in Pasadena, California, to think through cultural and linguistic strategies for sharing the gospel around theContinue reading “Ralph Winter’s Missions Campus Secures a Buyer”
Why Has It Become Harder To Stock the Church Planter Pipeline?
It’s become more difficult to recruit church planters today compared to the recent past Today in ministry leadership, many have adopted this phrase used in business and organizational psychology: pipeline. The concept is simple. A pipeline is an intentional process of discovering, developing, and deploying leaders within an organization or a movement. The imagery isContinue reading “Why Has It Become Harder To Stock the Church Planter Pipeline?”
20 Truths from “Move into More” by Choco De Jesús
Discovering the exhilarating, limitless, unpredictable, overflowing life of God’s more. My friend, Choco De Jesús (Pastor Choco), has written a new book and I am glad to feature snippets of it today on The Exchange. Choco is senior pastor of New Life Covenant Church, one of the fastest growing churches in Chicago. Consider ordering yourContinue reading “20 Truths from “Move into More” by Choco De Jesús”
In the Face of Moral Crisis, Churches Can’t Choose ‘Neutrality’
How Civil War–era churches that avoided taking sides on slavery ended up siding with its supporters. In antebellum and Civil War–era America, churches and denominations along the border between North and South voiced what would have been considered “moderate” opinions on slavery. But as April Holm shows in A Kingdom Divided, neutrality was attractive butContinue reading “In the Face of Moral Crisis, Churches Can’t Choose ‘Neutrality’”
Creepy Chick-fil-A and New York(er) Values: The Shock (and Slander) are Getting Old
The treatment the fast food restaurant has received for its “pervasive Christian traditionalism” is getting old and tired. Just several days ago, an article was published in The New Yorker discussing the “infiltration” of a certain fast food brand throughout Manhattan: Chick-fil-A. The headline says they are creepy, but probably not in the way thatContinue reading “Creepy Chick-fil-A and New York(er) Values: The Shock (and Slander) are Getting Old”