Each born-again believer has something unique to offer the Body of Christ. The success of the Church depends on all of its parts. Everyone in the local Church should carry the spirit of an Armorbearer. It is the heart of a servant. To be the greatest in the Kingdom is to be servant of all. In this b... (more)

Curious about the world in which we live and informed by the emerging church conversation, Nathan Frambach asks, "What does it mean to be the church as we live - not as we think or remember or long for, but as we live God's mission today?" In response, the author suggests that being church today wil... (more)

We live in an age of browsers. People flip across TV channels, click through image-based web pages, flip through glossy magazines. So how do we get noticed? How can we make sure our church activities, events and peopl catch the attention of this busy, visual world? How do we help our members to b... (more)

Church leaders want to know how to make small groups work for their church communities, yet a quick look around shows that while small groups are all the rage, much of the time they create more problems than they solve. Nelson Searcy and Kerrick Thomas, founding pastors of The Journey Church in the ... (more)

Recent changes to clergy terms of service have raised a wide range of issues touching on questions of power, rights of tenure, expectation and training. They reflect changes in patterns of ministry internal to the church, but also the changing cultural context in which we work. This study sets o... (more)