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Can Churches Keep Young Adults Coming Back? | Aaron Earls with Lifeway Research
10 Characteristics of Churches That Keep Young Adults: A Lifeway Research study of young adults raised in the church discovered certain characteristics can have an imp...
The Big Invite | Easter Guest Follow-up as a Bi-Vocational Pastor
It is easy to neglect or overlook guest follow-up. In a single staff church or as a bi-vocational pastor, it can seem overwhelming to be the person who has to do it al...
The Big Invite | Connecting Easter Guest to Existing Groups
With Resurrection Sunday just around the corner, even as covid-19 lingers, excitement builds as we anticipate the guests and occasional attendees who will fill our wor...
Watershed Discipleship | Moving from Doing to Equipping with guest Dr. Thomas Hammond
Disciple-making pastors lead disciple-making churches. As a church leader, you are not exempt from the personal call of every believer to make disciples. Preaching and...
Watershed Discipleship | Making and Multiplying Disciples
In other words, the greatest (recorded) temptation we see in the life of the Lord Jesus was just before He began making and multiplying disciples.
Watershed Discipleship | Moving from Consumers to Co-Laborers
One of the most challenging pivots for churches to make is helping their members understand that every believer should serve, not sit.
When should I transition to a new position or to a new church?
What can the local church do to prepare members and staff for their future even if that means it may not be at their church? 1. Don’t lock a staff person into only o...
Watershed Discipleship | Cultivating Teachers to Produce World-Impacting Disciples
Great knowledge of scripture can be academic, but an application of that knowledge is life-changing.
Watershed Discipleship | Keep the Flame Hot - Linking Evangelism and Discipleship
We learned from our teacher how to trim the fuel and oxygen mix to produce a blue flame because that was the hottest flame we could get. This allowed us to properly h...
Watershed Discipleship | Finding Balance in Discipleship
“As believers engage in multiple layers of ministry, you will see a higher rate of connection, stronger commitment, and deeper levels of spiritual maturity. Providing ...
New Members Class: Joining a Church During a Pandemic
Don't assume people will be disciples, have intentional pathways, like a new members class, to onboard them to a discipleship pathway. The new member class is not for ...
Watershed Discipleship | Creating discipleship pathways during COVID-19
Every church should purpose to make disciples of Jesus Christ in ongoing relational environments that seek spiritual maturity and multiplication. Many churches in our ...
Join a Learning Community in 2021
"Full transparency, this is the hardest ministry season I have ever experienced. I'm not going anywhere or anything, just at a point where I don't have a lot of excite...
The 5 Discipleship SHIFTS
The 5 Discipleship SHIFTS Most Churches NEED TO MAKE To Produce World-Impacting Disciple Makers
2020 Recap and Looking Ahead to 2021 | Dr. Levi Skipper and Dr. Scott Sullivan
Hear from Dr. Scott Sullivan our Georgia Baptist Discipleship Catalyst and Dr. Levi Skipper Church Strengthening Catalyst recap a year of discipleship in 2020 and look...
Shifting the Mindset of Discipleship
Start where you are to get where you want to go. Changing the mindset of a disciple.
Discover D-Life | Guest: Founder Bill Wilks
D-Life was born out of a burden to see a real and reproducible process for disciple-making. Through an in-depth study of the four Gospels, the simple disciple-making p...
Discover the Bonhoeffer Project - Guest Jim Thomas
The Bonhoeffer Project is grounded in the foundation Christ built while on earth. True discipleship is only effective when it is steeped in the gospel.
Ken Adams: Impact Discipleship
Ken Adams was called as the first pastor of Crossroads Church in Newnan, Georgia in 1989. He was passionate about the Great Commission and wanted his church to be a pa...
Refreshing Your Small Groups
If there is any “good” to come out of our current COVID-19 crisis, it’s that churches have been forced to reexamine the health of their current programs and ministries...