So we’ve all encountered this at some point. We’re just living our lives. Minding our own business. Living the dream. And then one day we get a Facebook message from someone we haven’t seen in ages. We think, “What could it be? Why would they message me after all these years? Are they in trouble? Are they in need?” Nope. They’re just trying to sell me some knives. Oh, multi-level marketers. Whether you like them

Last month, we at Christ Together released a new study on the State of Evangelism in the Church and while much of it highlighted trends we have seen before, there was one piece of data that provided an insight that was not just stark, but surprising. (You can download the free infographic here.) You see, over the last decade, I’ve had the opportunity to talk with thousands of pastors and my experience seems to suggest

At the end of the last piece from Albert Tate (“What Are You Doing Here?”), Jesus was talking with an isolated Samaritan woman beside a well. He came into her world and invited her into his, establishing a relationship and challenging her to be vulnerable. Then He tells her to go get her husband, knowing she was not married to the man she was living with. Jesus tells her, “Go get your husband.” Go get

At the beginning of this series, I referenced the idea of a magnet that can pull us toward a certain standard of what makes a church “successful.” While this prevailing model of the church has yielded significant Kingdom good, it has the potential to pull us away from the kind of Kingdom multiplication we long for. So far we have discussed four of the five shifts necessary to move away from the magnet of addition