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Discipleship, which includes caring for, counseling, and leading people, is happening globally.

To affect culture in a positive way you must see yourself as a missionary.

Salvation is too great a gift for us to keep to ourselves.

Sometimes God sends people to dust us off and carry us back to Jesus and his living water.

Let’s not complicate salvation: There are no exceptions to who can receive it.

Do your actions, words, and choices tell the greatest story ever told of grace and mercy?

Does your church pray for the Holy Spirit to call souls to Christ?

Being in the world but not of it means we have to communicate with enemies of Christ.

When there’s an opportunity, don’t blow the chance to share your life-changing story.

To be a fruitful, effective, and mature Christian, there are certain steps that must be taken.

Don’t try to make up for your old life, just focus on the one who makes all things new.

What would you do if you witnessed injustice, judgement and hypocrisy?

Worldly achievements mean nothing, but how you lived for Christ means gaining the whole world.

You can’t earn it because you don’t deserve it, so just accept it and be changed forever.

There’s nothing a human can do to enter heaven. It’s just a gift you willingly accept.

God, rich in love and mercy, wants you to come to Him and surrender what you have been holding onto.

A life of fulfillment starts and ends with the decision of your life: following Jesus.

They’re right. You can receive health and wealth, but not by following a rule book.

Paul made sure his message was clear to believers: Spreading the gospel is up to you.

Non-believers will only want what we have if they see fruits of the Spirit in us.

Leaving, embracing and invading is exactly what Jesus did, and we should do as well.

Preaching is a weighty task because by definition the preacher communicates on behalf of God.

We might be rough, but despite our brokenness, God still chooses to use us.

Accepting Christ is necessary, but it is not the full picture.

Biblical confrontation is important and necessary, but it must be motivated by love.

A vision statement should reflect your current ministries and the ministries you intend to implement.

The cross meant pain and agony, but now it means hope, peace, and life.

Systems need to be values driven, mission directed, vision focused then strategy accomplished.

Examine your life – your words, your actions, your intentions and commit them to the Lord.

How will people know Jesus, the light of the world, if we hide that light.

There are things we must give up in order to follow Jesus.

Disciple making is a commitment to open up your life to another person.

Christ is the ultimate seeker. He seeks and saves the lost.

Jesus knew there was a high price to secure your final resting place, and paid it.

A successful transition depends on much prayer, preparation, planning, a process, and it is the work of God.

I’m not sure there’s a difference between surfing and being a part of a church plant.

Summer camp is more than just water games and bunk beds; It can be a life changer.

Achieving earthly greatness is meaningless according to the greatest in heaven.

Instead of going overboard with inclusion in our culture, why don’t we love inclusively?

His story is no different from yours if your life seems meaningless and hopeless.

The Greatest Love Story of all time is beautifully portrayed in the Bible through Rulth.

Don’t spend your life running from Jesus, who is the Truth and our only source of hope.

Renovating is all the rage, but God has been in the renewal business since time began.

As we tell our changed-life stories, do we focus on what we did or what Jesus did?

When we accept the incredible gift of grace, we can see the freedom Christ came to give us.

I did all the right things and was a relatively “good” kid, but I knew I was missing something.

Do our actions point others to who Jesus is and his power to save?

When God sent his Son to earth, he said everything he wanted to say to the world.

God’s promise of giving us a Son as a Savior is a beautifully consistent note that reverberates throughout the entirety […]

God has given you stewardship of your church, but willingness to follow is not up to you.