The Priority Triangle – Whiteboard Wednesday Season 8: Episode 1

How church planters allocate their time – and for that matter, how all ministry leaders allocate their time – has direct impact on the effectiveness of their ministry. On today’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Bob Carlton equips us in this area through the “Priority Triangle.”

Facing our Blind Spots – Whiteboard Wednesday Season 7: Episode 11

Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, we all have blind spots. Simply put, we don’t know what we can’t see. On today’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Mike Gafa guides us through how to face our blind spots, and how to proactively maintain healthy spiritual peripheral vision.

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A Multicultural Church = A Stronger Church

One of the neglected elements that can strengthen congregations is diversity within a given church. Diversity within a congregation means ethnic, generational, language, and class variation within a given church. Think of a church where members come from different groups — some are African-American, others are Asian, and others are Euro-Americans. Moreover, there are people of different age groups in …

From Root to Fruit – Whiteboard Wednesday Season 7: Episode 7

On today’s Whiteboard video, Chris Hall talks about what it means to apply a “root to fruit” approach to discipleship. The phrase comes from Gospel Fluency, by Jeff Vanderstelt, and has great significance for individual Christians and for churches who are passionate about raising up disciples of Jesus Christ.

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Covenantal Leadership Through a Leadership Covenant

The following is taken from Faith-Based: A Biblical, Practical Guide to Strategic Planning in the Church, by Michael Gafa: I have found that having a well discerned, easy to understand Leadership Covenant is a great way to uphold core values and biblical truths in tandem with promoting cohesion and unity in Christ. The Leadership Covenant example that follows is one I have …

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The Sent Sender!

I love getting packages! I love sending packages! Thankfully for me, internet shopping and ordering have made sending and receiving packages more popular than ever. Did you know… FedEx sends 6.9 million packages per day. UPS Sends 15.8 million packages per day. USPS Sends 1.8 million packages per day. 25 million packages are sent EVERY DAY, just from these three …