Celebrating the Faithfulness of God

Celebrating the Faithfulness of God

Earlier this year, two healthy multiethnic churches in and near Charlotte, NC, celebrated double-digit anniversaries.  Together with the people of Mosaic Church (Charlotte), founding pastors Naeem and Ashley Fazal celebrated sixteen years of fruitful ministry on the north side of the city. Further south, founding pastors Derwin and Vicki Gray

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Planting Glocal Churches for the World

Planting Glocal Churches for the World

As followers of Christ we have been called to make disciples and to bring life and hope to a world of decay, disease, and death. The New Testament is a wonderful example to us of the kind of disciples that are needed for our world. As we read the Sermon

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How Church Leaders Can Empower and Pursue Millennials and Gen Z

How Church Leaders Can Empower and Pursue Millennials and Gen Z

Paralysis by Analysis We live in a society of increasing technology and fast-moving information. This can cause information overload which can lead to analysis paralysis. Analysis paralysis can lead to decision fatigue, which leads to indecision. This is why people like Steve Jobs wore the same clothes every day to

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Plant and Multiply vs. Extract and Disciple

Plant and Multiply vs. Extract and Disciple

It’s very possible that I’ve learned more about the nature of spreading the Gospel from watching zombie movies than going to seminary. True story. At the very base level, the zombie apocalypse occurs because infection infiltrates relational networks. Friend bites friend, wife bites husband, zombie-dog bites neighbor (I’ve seen weird

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