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How to Build a City-Wide Marketplace Ministry
Well, when the economy crashed in 2008, the fire marshal threatened to shut down Hyde Park United Methodist because so many people were now coming on Monday mornings. They were no longer getting 30 to 40 people per week -
Unpacking the Origins of the Sacred-Secular Divide
That concept of clergy and laity is not Biblical. It did not arise out of Jewish tradition; it rose out of Greek philosophy, especially Plato. This creates a dualism that separates the sacred and the secular. So “Pastor Pete” has
Can 9-5 Work Be an Avenue for Christian Creativity?
We have to debunk the unbiblical, conventional wisdom that says that unless you are a pastor” or “full-time missionary” (I hate that term, by the way) you aren’t doing ministry. Jesus called every single one of us to be a
Leadership Talk: Overcoming Disappointment
"There’s a divine perspective, a God-reliance we can learn in these times. There’s an eternity on the side of this pain – an eternity of peace, love, and joy. Everything else is temporary. I just don’t personalize my disappointment. It’s not
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Pursuing God’s Destiny for Our Lives
Leo Bigger, Gary Morgan and Dutch Sheets dive into God's destiny for our lives and how we can access it.
Unheard Stories of Church Planters from Around the World
When I was initially thinking about the one-million church vision back in 1997, I thought, “What if we found leaders out there that had a hundred churches, or a thousand churches, or ten thousand churches in them?” If we just
God Told this Man to Plant Five Million Churches
I was making a turn, on a trail, and the Lord impressed upon my mind’s eye, “Plant a million churches.” I was frankly terrified. I thought, “How in the world can we possibly do this?” At this point in my prayer walk