- 1. Get Help: For Pastors Who Struggle With a Mental Health Issue
- In ministry, our jobs are typically designed to help others. We walk with families through grief, help the single mother and pray for couples struggling through an affair. We are outwardly focused, pouring ...
- Created on 12 March 2021
- 2. Look for These 7 Church Trends in 2020
- Offering trends are a worthless exercise if they have no connection to reality. For over 15 years, I have suggested trends in churches that may become movements of reality. On an occasional basis, I review ...
- Created on 30 December 2019
- 3. 5 Reasons Why Smaller Churches Are Making a Comeback
- ... p attendance; 4% of churches in America. Mid Mega: 1,000 to 1,999 in worship attendance; 2% of churches in America. Mega: 2,000-plus in worship attendance; Less than 1/2 of 1% of churches in America. Two-thir ...
- Created on 12 July 2019
- 4. What Happens When Megachurch Pastors, Priests Betray Public Trust With Sexual Escapades ...
- ... Megachurch pastors and priests betray public trust with sexual escapades. Politicians are regularly exposed for involvement in securities fraud and unethical conduct. High-level military officials ar ...
- Created on 20 August 2018
- 5. Megachurch Pastor Helps Save 42,500 Children's Lives Because He Followed a Simple Call ...
- It all started with a sermon. At the time, I was a 30-something-year-old pastor leading a congregation in South Florida and caring for a young family. About 10 years earlier, a woman in Texas had filed ...
- Created on 22 January 2018
- 6. What Does an Unhealthy Church Look Like?
- ... reasons to affirm small churches, but romanticizing them is unhelpful to the mission. So without idealizing the small church, let's value it. Small churches are and have always been the norm. The rise of ...
- Created on 15 November 2017
- 7. Pastor, Stop Trying to Be Joel Osteen
- I met Joel Osteen many years ago when he asked me to direct a series of TV specials featuring his father, Pastor John Osteen. We became friends, and when his dad passed away and Joel became pastor of Lakewood ...
- Created on 17 July 2017
- 8. Serious Signals a Megachurch Is Having Minor Influence ...
- There has been a megachurch phenomenon in the world for the last several decades. By "megachurch," I am referring to a church that has an average attendance of 2,000-3,000 attendees on a Sunday. I hav ...
- Created on 12 July 2017
- 9. The Lego Principle: An Interview With Joey Bonifacio
- Since 1984, Victory Manila in the Philippines has planted 60 churches. Ed Stetzer recently sat down to talk with Joey Bonifacio, one of the pastors of Victory Manila, who explains why the growth has been ...
- Created on 10 April 2015
- 10. Why Mega Church Pastors Shouldn’t Skip Local Pastor Gatherings ...
- ... of those mega churches pull away from the ministers of the small congregations in the same city, as though they now live in different worlds. They give the impression that they have been elevated to suc ...
- Created on 13 March 2015
