Category: Pastors

If you want to get people excited about prayer (and actually doing it), here’s what you can do from the stage.

Envisioning a New Kind of Church

Just learning about the pursueGOD discipleship resources? Discuss this topic with your leadership team or consultant.

What Is Your Role as a Pastor?

A typical pastor preaches and shepherds a lot. But pastoring in a pursueGOD network church is a little different.

When Handoffs Aren’t Working

So your church finally has a pipeline of mentors waiting in the wings to take a handoff. But what if the handoff fails?

3 Keys to a Discipleship Culture

If you want to create a church of disciples who make disciples, it’ll take more than wishful thinking. You’ll need prayer, expectation, and strategy.

Email Follow Up for a Handoff

Just made a mentoring handoff at church? Now be sure to follow up with the mentor to recommend next steps.

Making the Handoff

If you want to create a discipleship culture in your church, you will have to learn how to connect your mentors with the people who need help.

How to Recruit for Ministry Teams

Recruiting volunteers is hard. Pastor John Belles gives practical advice for those who want to do it better.

Establish Biblical Foundations

by Every Nation

If you establish deep biblical foundations in your disciple-makers, the church you’re building will be storm-proof for generations to come.

Preachers Must Say Hard Things

God loves sermons that proclaim hard truths from his word—even if the others don’t.

Strategic Priority for Pastors

If you want to create a discipleship culture in your church, you have to discipline yourself and focus on the tasks that will get you there.

The Difference between Outward-facing and Inward-facing Frameworks

The iconic design of the Macbook provides a simple model for how disciple-making ministries need to think about language.

How to Care for Someone Battling Anxiety and Depression

by The Gospel Coalition

In ministry, we are often challenged when we must serve those struggling through anxiety and depression.

How to Create a Warm Church That Makes Disciples

If you want to make disciples who make disciples at your church, you’d better create a warm atmosphere where people want to connect.

When Christians Claim Same-Sex Attraction

What do you say when a professing Christian chooses to pursue same-sex romantic relationships?

The Flywheel for a Discipleship Culture

It’s easy to get busy doing ministry tasks that take you away from the real win that Jesus had in mind: making disciple-makers.

Unity Is the Church’s Perfume

Unity glorifies God and is for our betterment as individuals and as a body.

Pastor, Minimize Your Own Opinions