Barna research: A Rapid Decline in Pastoral Security

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“New Barna data shows that pastors’ confidence and satisfaction in their vocation has decreased significantly in the past few years, and two in five (41%) say they’ve considered quitting ministry in the last 12 months.” - Barna

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Ministry Is Bigger in Texas

“What do you think about going to Texas?”

Chris Katulka, director of North American Ministries for The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, posed that question to me in the summer of 2020.

“To live?” I think that was my response.

Well, he explained, at least initially it would just be for a visit. I was given the task—the test?—of lining up and then executing my own ministry trip to Texas.

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Got Reverence? Try Minor-Key Songs on Sunday.

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“Scripture teaches it’s good to sing songs that voice both joy and sadness. But there’s another emotion Scripture commends to us and our churches that can get neglected: reverence.” - TGC

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Failures and Fixes of Leader Training, Part 1

A night club, a recording studio, an apartment complex, a tae-kwon-do facility. No, these are not answers to the questions from the winner’s circle of the $25,000 Pyramid gameshow. This is the reality for many church buildings in America. Places that once boasted the gathering of worshipers for Jesus Christ, are now lamented as monuments to “empires” of the past. Some were edifices built not for the King, but for a king!

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