Group Calling Exercise

By Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org It has been a challenge for groups to come up with ways to reach out during the Covid epidemic. So, our leadership team uses a “Group Calling Lab” to help groups discern where God might be calling them to display the love and...

Who Invited You?

Michelle Geoffrey, cell pastor at www.celebrationchurch.org In 2001, I was LOST, I was like a blindfolded person in a maze… lost!  I was doing all of the wrong things and headed in the wrong direction.  In the fall of that year, I surrendered my life to the Lord, but...

Investor? Inviter? Convincer? Converser?

By Rob Campbell, Founding Pastor, www.cypresscreekchurch.com In 2012, Alan Hirsch and Tim Catchim wrote The Permanent Revolution:  Apostolic Imagination and Practice of the 21st Century Church.  In this book, the authors develop the “Evangelism Ministry Matrix”...

Prayer produces Intimacy

By Jeff Tunnell What? Prayer produces intimacy? Most view prayer as asking for things. But intimacy? The reality is that when we are transparent before God, our hearts become intimately observable by others who engage in prayer with us.  Passion and desire for...