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1. Why It's OK for Your Team to Have Heated Disagreements: ... is OK. Disrespect, dishonor and disunity is not. #bettertogether #rigorousdebate" Here's the story. One of the conversation topics with our core ENC national leaders was sexual purity and how we shou ...; Created on 26 June 2017
2. Leading Your Team Into Mature unity: ... results. Strong teams that function well are both mature and unified. Unity and maturity can elude even the best of teams because people view and value both of these elements differently. Essentially ...; Created on 12 June 2017
3. Is Your Church Walking in This Revelation 7 Principle?: ... members of the churches in both Cape Town and Nashville that God has called us to into a new community, one where ethnic, social, cultural and political differences are subordinated to the central realit ...; Created on 15 May 2017
4. Great Church Groups Have These 2 Emotional Ingredients: ... d of emotions in very close proximity to one another, if not simultaneously. How does your group (staff team, community group, co-workers, family) handle simultaneous events that are polar opposites emotionall ...; Created on 29 March 2017
5. Uprooting the Bitter Weeds That Kill Your Team's unity: ... that dreaded word: change. You discover one of your staff is a major gossip. Or a mid-level leader criticizes your latest decision and posts it online. Really? At the core of most of these "unity-slayer ...; Created on 20 March 2017
6. 4 Questions to Help You Improve Your Church-Wide Communication: Most of us live in close proximity to our smartphones. We are constantly inundated with information and instantaneously have access to more data than we can absorb in a lifetime. Communication has become ...; Created on 09 January 2017
7. How You Can Recognize Spiritually Receptive People in Your Community: Pastor, you're surrounded by dirt. To be more precise, you're surrounded by soil—all kinds of soil. In your community, you have people who are ready to respond to the gospel and people who aren't. Your ...; Created on 06 January 2017
8. Icebreakers to Impact Your Neighbors at Christmastime: ... tely the case. So let's hear from you: What are some things you've done at Christmas to reach those in your community who might not know Christ? Leave your stories in the comments. A version of this post ...; Created on 22 December 2016
9. How You Can Entice Non-Believers to Your Church: ... these possibilities. Focused on Americans who do not attend church, here is what they said would draw them into one: 62 percent: a meeting about neighborhood safety 51 percent: a community service event ...; Created on 19 December 2016
10. 9 Traits of an Orphan-Spirit Church: ... than a life-giving community. By "orphan spirit," I am referring to people who have a sense of alienation from their father and or those who attempt to earn their father's love through success. The Bib ...; Created on 02 December 2016
11. How You Can Go Public on Controversial Issues—and Survive: ... political campaigns, certainly qualify. A pastor may be risking his ministry in that church, if not his entire career, by taking a public stand on something dividing his community. It's not enough for hi ...; Created on 14 November 2016
12. Why You Should Stop Searching for 'Authentic' Church Community: A few weeks ago, my oldest son, William, preached a sermon at Bethel's Wednesday night service on the importance of church community. He opened with this quote from German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffe ...; Created on 16 September 2016
13. How Is Your Church Serving the Community?: "What is this church doing for the community?" In our nine years as a church, I've found this to be one of the most commonly asked questions by Christians, mostly millennials, who visit our church. Th ...; Created on 07 July 2016
14. Why Impacting Communities Should Be a Church Priority: Growing a church and impacting a community are not mutually exclusive. In fact, these two complex endeavors are highly interrelated. However, a strategy to grow your church may or may not have an impact ...; Created on 03 June 2016
15. How to Keep the People You Are Reaching: ... ieve social media is an extremely powerful medium for outreach because of its relational nature. Running a traditional advertisement in a newspaper or on television will give your church exposure in the commu ...; Created on 01 April 2016
16. 4 Questions to Ask Before Easter Sunday Arrives: ... Sunday is such a golden opportunity to tell people about the hope we have in the risen Christ, it's definitely prudent to start planning for it early. As your staff and leadership team starts to develo ...; Created on 22 February 2016
17. 5 Levels of Why People Will Listen to You: When people sit in a chair and listen to you for 30 minutes or three hours, what keeps them in that chair? It's never wise to assume or take for granted that people are listening as you talk. As a communicator, ...; Created on 28 January 2016
18. How to Cultivate Community and Purpose: ... needs and only Christ can provide: community and purpose. Deep down, we all want to be fully known and fully loved. That's community. We all want to know our life matters. That's purpose. When all is sa ...; Created on 19 January 2016
19. 9 Ways to Supersize Church Outreach: ... least every other year do a sermon series that reminds your church that you are a Great Commission church. Good times for this series are just before the inviting opportunity: leading up to Easter, August ...; Created on 29 October 2015
20. Finding Strength in Our Collective Voice: ... n I make my community better, how am I living out my purpose, where do I need to join with others for a greater impact. My heart is drawn towards connecting people with the necessary skills and resource ...; Created on 27 October 2015

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