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Team Doesn’t Have An I, But It Does Have A You (Ch. 35)
A healthy church starts with a healthy culture among its leadership team. That health, however, must be cultivated. Kevin and Jeremy Morton, pastor of First Baptist Woodstock, Ga., speak about the keys to developing a healthy team culture.
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Evangelism
The Next Generation
Send Relief care bags delivered to healthcare workers
By Brandon Elrod ALPHARETTA, Ga.—Send Relief volunteers in Denver, Ashland, Ky., and Alpharetta, Ga., have assembled care packages that are being distributed to healthcare workers...
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Evangelism
The Next Generation
Giving an Effective, Online Gospel Invitation
By Shane Pruitt The COVID-19 pandemic has created unique circumstances and its share of difficulties. This crisis, however, has also created its fair share of...
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Church Planting
NAMB SBC Report: Ezell spotlights Disciple-making Task Force, church planting impact
By Josie Rabbitt Bingham DALLAS—Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting heard both a challenging and encouraging report from North American Mission Board...
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Church Planting
Missional Engagement
Undivided event encourages pastors to pursue racial reconciliation
By Brandon Elrod On Tuesday night, June 12, during the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting, the North American Mission Board (NAMB) hosted a breakout...
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In the closing two verses of the book of Acts, Paul is imprisoned in his own home. Nero is on the throne of the Roman…
You’re all invited!
How many ways can I invite thee? Let me count the ways (to paraphrase the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning)! Having pastored over four decades, preached…
Five ways to give an evangelistic invitation
I have a confession to make. While it is rare that I preach a sermon without having some kind of invitation, I am always nervous…
9 characteristics of a church planter: Leadership
No one has ever called me charismatic. I’m not a raging extrovert. And I’m certainly not the type of visionary that seems larger than life….
Is it OK to Pick and Choose Religious Beliefs and Practices?
It is sometimes tempting to mix Christianity with beliefs from other religions. Combining beliefs from different faiths is called syncretism. We see examples of this…
Money matters: Staff and salaries
In 2010, my family moved to Boston (one of the most expensive places to live in the U.S.) with a church planting team to plant Redemption…
How to choose songs for your church
As a worship leader, one thing that I have learned is that art is very subjective and contextual. For example, while The Mona Lisa may…
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Send Institute shares church planting knowledge across denominational lines
By Staff ALPHARETTA, Ga. — When evangelical pastors from Germany visited the North American Mission Board (NAMB) two years ago to tour the facility and...
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How to look at Christian miracles
I know a lot of people who really get tripped up by miracles in the Bible. Even Christians aren’t always sure what to make of…
Door to Door Surveys
Going house-to-house is a wonderful way to discover prospects and to engage persons in a spiritual dialogue resulting in professions of faith in Christ. A…
Sending Church – Commissioning
When you begin to rattle off the names of the great characters of the Bible, there are some obvious names that come to mind: Jesus,…