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The Crossroads Discernment Toolkit equips churches for Spirit-led, group-engaged, mission-oriented discernment during seasons when hard questions about mission and identity need to be asked and answered.
How do we see God in light of the crises that surround us? Do you look back to find him or look somewhere else?
Is Facebook evil? How about Tik Tok? Take time and learn from two resources and decide on your own.
This prayer can help us keep our focus on our neighbor.
The Crossroads Discernment Toolkit equips churches for Spirit-led, group-engaged, mission-oriented discernment during seasons when hard questions about mission and identity need to be asked and answered.
In Charles Olson's book, Transforming Church Boards into Communities of Spiritual Leaders, he asks: what if there is another way of looking at the work of the church council?
Mark Noll’s powerful and insightful book The Civil War as a Theological Crisis resonates with struggles of our day.
Average church attendance hovered around 50% of what they usually could expect in the summer. Surely things would bounce back in the fall, right? Looks like probably not. So what next?
A Prayer for God's work in us to make us one, as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one.
“Why do we do church in the ways that we do?” The possibilities are as many as the contexts in which we find ourselves.
The Crossroads Discernment Toolkit equips churches for Spirit-led, group-engaged, mission-oriented discernment during seasons when hard questions about mission and identity need to be asked and answered.
Designed to equip churches for Spirit-led, group-engaged, mission-oriented discernment, the Crossroads Discernment Toolkit was birthed out of a unique collaboration between Resonate Global Mission and the CRCNA's Pastor Church Resources.
Taking words from James Baldwin, Robert P. Jones' new book holds that white Christians have been white too long.
Could it be that without confession there can't really be deep renewal?
Building a Vibrant Congregation is about living out God’s amazing vision of the way things are supposed to be.
The church must have Jesus, not artificially wrapped through human thought, but who lives from the beginning until now and forever.
At the beginning of COVID-19, Andy Crouch wrote about churches preparing for a blizzard, winter, and a mini ice age. Here's a tool to help churches be ready.
In the conversation about the church health, 22 key questions can provide lots of good information.
Aimee Byrd's recent book on recovering from Biblical manhood and womanhood takes on gender stereotypes in the church.
As we anticipate society “going back to normal,” I encourage you to consider what ways your church has shown resilience. In what ways are you healthier because of how you adapted?
Kristin Kobes Du Mez's book Jesus and John Wayne helps evangelicals to see their family story.
Restart Churches gives important insights into how churches can wisely and practically restart their life as a congregation.
How do churches move from a consumer to a missionary mentality? This missional shift is far from easy and will take a long time, but here's one important first step.
N.T. Wright is less concerned about the "why" of the Pandemic and more concerned about the "what" of the Christian response.
In the first of the Church Now conversations, Ed Stetzer spoke about the church’s response to COVID-19 and the killing of George Floyd.