How to Blow up a Church (Part 2)
Spiritually speaking how do you blow up a church, youth group, campus ministry or Sunday school with the right brand of new-believers-being-added-to-the-kingdom growth?
Greg Stier is the Founder and President of Dare 2 Share Ministries International. He has impacted the lives of tens of thousands of Christian teenagers through Dare 2 Share events, motivating and mobilizing them to reach their generation for Christ. He is the author of eleven books and numerous resources, including Dare 2 Share: A Field Guide for Sharing Your Faith. For more information on Dare 2 Share and their upcoming conference tour and training resources, please visit www.dare2share.org.
Spiritually speaking how do you blow up a church, youth group, campus ministry or Sunday school with the right brand of new-believers-being-added-to-the-kingdom growth?
I love Mormons. To be honest I don’t know if I’ve ever met a Mormon I didn’t like. Just the other day we had a Mormon family over to our house
Okay, not literally. I’m talking about the kind of spiritual and numerical church explosion we read about in the book of Acts.
If you want to “catch” teenagers for Christ then you must go to the ponds where they are swimming 7+ hours a day, the public school campus.
With the same day passing of great men like Steve Jobs and great/godly men like Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth one can’t help but think about the brevity of life and the surety of death.
Over the last three years or so prayer has been becoming an obsession in my life and ministry. The financial tsunami that swept across America in October of 2008 swept across many non-profit ministries too.
Would it surprise you that the following five terms are never used in the Bible when it comes to describing how a person receives salvation?
You can’t walk down the mall (Victoria, it’s not a secret), drive down the street (billboards!), or surf the internet without seeing something vile. And forget watching television or going to the movies.
In the ten years since the attacks my reaction has been changed again and again. But, as the dust has finally settled, I am convinced from my reading of Scripture that there are three ways Christians should respond.
Droughts in Texas, record breaking heat in the midwest, hurricanes on the east coast and torrential rains on the Gulf Coast all combine to beg the question, “What the heck is going on?”