Results tagged “mission” from Church Leader Gazette

God has given every believer, in every one of our churches, a mission - to go into the world and share the Good News about Jesus. Why? Why should we care enough about the people around us to tell them about how to get to Heaven? This can be a difficult concept to teach our congregations. How do we motivate them to take the Good News and share it with others? Here is something that might help.

Seriously, haven't you ever secretly wanted to strap a boatload of balloons onto a chair and head out into the big blue sky? Maybe it's just me, but I think cruising over my neighborhood rooftops in a helium powered chairplane would make my day.

In a study that resulted in our book Comeback Churches (B&H Publishing), 324 comeback churches were surveyed in order to seek answers to the questions of what and how to make a comeback from a trend of spiraling downward, both spiritually and numerically. How did 324 churches start growing again after experiencing a pattern of plateau or decline? Based upon the information gathered in this study, some church change factors were perceived to be more important than others by comeback leaders.

1) Remember that the Lord wants to teach you what it means to hear His voice and help you grow in faith, grace, obedience, and holiness (2 Peter 3:18; Romans 8:29). Don't be surprised when you encounter experiences of difficulty, personal conflict, and even anxiety. All these are training opportunities for the Lord to teach you what it means to depend on Him.