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Episode 19: On Church Mergers and Plants
We just released a Journal on church planting and church mergers. Because neither Mark nor Jonathan wrote an article for it, we devoted this episode …
8 years, 8 months ago
Episode 18: On Conversion
In a few weeks, we’re releasing a new book, Conversion: How God Creates a People, in which Michael Lawrence makes the case that one’s doctrine of con…
8 years, 9 months ago
Episode 17: On How to Receive and Dismiss Members
One of the most important and time-consuming tasks for a church and its pastors involves receiving and releasing members, bringing them in and seeing…
8 years, 9 months ago
Episode 16: On Corporate Prayer
In many evangelical churches, the public prayers are casual, short, and few. Is that a problem? How does this contemporary situation compare to the h…
8 years, 9 months ago
Episode 15: On How Quickly a Pastor Should Make Changes
It’s tempting for a new pastor to show up with a laundry list of problems that need to be fixed. But that approach almost never works, and many have …
8 years, 9 months ago
Episode 14: How the “Senior Pastor” Relates to Other Pastors
Does the senior pastor—or the teaching pastor, or the lead pastor, or whatever title your church gives to the man who preaches most often—have more a…
8 years, 10 months ago
Episode 13: On Being a Word-Centered Church
It’s a question countless pastors ask every single day: How can I grow my church?
In his new book WORD-CENTERED CHURCH, Jonathan Leeman offers a bibli…
8 years, 10 months ago
Episode 12: On Small Groups
These days, small groups are quite common. But are they enough for community and accountability? What’s the best way to do small groups such that the…
8 years, 10 months ago
Episode 11: On Being “Called” to Ministry
Being “called” to ministry isn’t entirely personal, internal, and subjective. It involves both the individual and a church, an internal desire and ex…
8 years, 10 months ago
Episode 10: Should A Church Reflect Its Surrounding Community?
Does your congregation look like the people who live around it? If not, does it matter? How important is it that a church reflects its surrounding co…
8 years, 11 months ago