Todd Gray

There are only two ways to do local church evangelism – come and see or go and tell. Every church has a “come and see” strategy as it gathers on Sunday morning, posts its service times and welcomes guests to come and hear the Gospel.

Every ministry leader needs the opportunity to hear from those who lead them as to how they are doing and what they can do more effectively.

We need more evangelistic preaching in our states. When the Gospel is preached, God’s people are both encouraged and trained to share the Gospel themselves, and lost people are confronted and convicted about their standing before God.  

Crises come without warning. When they arrive in a church or ministry, they require the fully devoted attention of pastors, elders and ministry leaders. No matter what is written on your calendar for the day, it all changes when there is a crisis.  

The wise preacher reminds us in Ecclesiastes 3:7b that there is “a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.” But if you are a pastor, elder or ministry leader then you may feel the tension of discerning which one you need to do at any given moment.

A friend recently shared Pew Research data that stopped me in my tracks: Baby Boomers make up only about one-fifth of the population, yet they represent almost half of Southern Baptist church membership.

Fear is an enormous challenge for many of God’s people. Milly Jones, in a blogpost under the heading of Milly’s Scribblings, discovered 145 Bible verses encouraging God’s people who battle fear.

Tithing is generally understood as setting aside 10% of one’s income to be given to one’s local church as an act of worship to the Lord. I grew up in a home where my mother tithed off our household income. So, when I became a Christian, tithing was a natural expression of worship to God and support of my local church.  

To say that pornography use is a “sin epidemic” in our nation, and in the Christian community, may be an understatement. 

Good pastors are hard to find. Some churches that are without a pastor have spent two years or longer in a search for their next one.