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Effective Church Insights from Revelation 2 & 3 Chuck Swindoll Everybody I know has either read or heard about the best-selling book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Fireside) by Stephen Covey. I’d like to explore Seven Habits of Highly Effective Churches. Not the seven habits; I think there might be 17 or maybe […]

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How Do You Motivate Your Congregation To Bring Friends And Family Each Week? Dave Ferguson Since the vision statement of Community Christian Church is “helping people find their way back to God,” we spend a lot of time dreaming, discussing, and talking about how we can do a better job of motivating our people to […]

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12 Emails You Can Send To Your Church Church Fuel A BRIEF INTRODUCTION 12 EMAILS YOU CAN SEND TO YOUR CHURCH I subscribe to several church email lists. That means I get a ton of announcements. Pretty graphics describing a new series. Dates of special events. And lots of information. But rarely do I get […]

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Job Description: Promotions Department Director United Pentecostal Church – 1989 Tim Massengale Job Purpose To administer and supervise the Promotions Department in a manner that will communicate to the church, visitors and to the public at large, the message of Truth, plus all church activities, ministries and programs. Being a visual mode of communication, it […]

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When Conservatism Isn’t Enough Jeff Christopherson Well-worn paths typically mark the desired way forward. The assumption is that others have walked that route and arrived at their desired destination. Unfamiliar travelers looking for a safe outcome would be foolish to take an alternate path. The same is not true for missional leaders in our day. […]

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Reaching Out to Non-Believers this Holiday Season Ed Stetzer Relationships are a significant means through which people can be reached with the gospel. Going to church, believe it or not, can be a controversial topic around the holiday season. Some of us go consistently each week, some of us used to go, and some of […]

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3 Steps To Help People At Your Church Become Connected And Known Jennifer Winge No matter the size of your church, people need community. We are reminded in Hebrews 10:24-25 how important and challenging community can be: “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving […]

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3 Teams That Are Critical To Church Growth Churchfuel.com Church growth should be a team effort, with God as the head of that team. God has provided the people who are leading the church with you-staff and volunteers-and they need to understand their critical role in the health and growth of the church as a […]

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Your 6 Question Evangelism Action Plan The Disciple Maker Team The only time Jesus told us to “wait around” was when he said to wait for the Holy Spirit to empower us. That’s excellent advice. We shouldn’t be trying to do this alone, because only God can make the complexity of spiritual reality truly clear […]

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9 Reasons Some Churches Will Not Reach College Students Chuck Lawless I love college students. In fact, I’d want to be pastoring in a university town if the Lord called me back to the senior pastorate. I’m convinced that their generation has a much greater opportunity to reach the nations than my generation does. On […]

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