Articles for Topic: Congregational Life

What Should Ministry Look Like in America?

From CTPastors Fours Church Leaders Weigh In A PRE-CHRISTENDOM CHURCH, Claude Alexander, senior pastor of The Park Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. What we call post-Christian culture strikingly resembles the pre-Christendom era—before Constantine, when the church...

Tolerating Bad Behavior in the Church

From Perspectives By Susan Nienaber This morning as I was driving to one of the churches in my district I listened to the radio to get caught up on the news. It was all about President Trump’s tweets regarding the NFL and the National Anthem, escalating tensions with...

Teams: Not Easy, Just Necessary

By John Wimberly As an advocate for using teams to carry out the work of a congregation and for eliminating as many committees as possible, I often get phone calls like this: “John, we read your book and decided to move from a committee-driven to a team-driven...

I’m A Millennial. This Is The Kind Of Church I Need.

By Steve Austin “Only those who recognize the extent of their wounds and their wounding can be made well.” – Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday I’m a 30-something Millennial, and a former pastor. Most folks would assume that combination would make me pretty...