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10 Ways to Connect with Older Congregations

By: Lane Sebring My church has two Sunday services. The earlier service is a more traditional worship environment. This service tends to be attended by an older demographic. From my experience of preaching this service I have made some observations about preaching to older crowds: 1. Older crowds are way more receptive to young preachers […]

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The Day I Hit the Wall

By: Gordon McDonald Marathon runners speak of “hitting the wall,” a moment in a race when the body appears to have exhausted all of its energy and pleads to quit. I borrow this phrase when I recall a life-altering experience I had one Saturday morning in my fourth year as a pastor. For me, hitting […]

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Where Have All the Evangelism Conferences Gone?

Ed Stetzer is talking about what he sees as the lost passion today for soul winning evangelism in the evangelical community. As you read, ask yourself about your experience in the Pentecostal revival and its outreach today. To use Stetzer’s phrase, the evangelical community has fallen on “hard times.” Are we different, holding firmly in prayer to the zeal of […]

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11 Types of Healthy Churches That Often Stay Small

By Karl Vaters This article originally appeared on Christianity Today. Many types of churches fulfill the Great Commission without seeing their own numerical growth. “If a church stays small, they must be doing something wrong. It can’t possibly be healthy.” This has been an underlying assumption of many in the church growth movement. (Although it’s […]

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