Here’s a statistic that should stop every pastor and church leader in their tracks: Of the only 20% of churches that are growing today, 95% of that “growth” is not actual growth at all—it’s shuffling Christians around into new groups. Only 1% of what we call “church growth” represents reaching lost people. Let that sink […]
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Chan Kilgore has seen a lot in nearly 25 years of ministry. But he’s never seen anything like what’s happening at New River Fellowship in Fort Lauderdale. “I haven’t seen anything like it in the amount of time we’ve experienced,” Kilgore says. “The kind of conversions we’re seeing are undeniably a work of God.” The
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Rick Warren posted five words last week that should haunt every pastor in America: “Stop attending church and start being the church.” Over 40,000 people shared it. Millions nodded. And then Sunday came, and most of them sat in the same seat, watched the same show, and drove home unchanged. Here’s the uncomfortable math. According
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A post went viral on Reddit this week. The title was simple: “I was an atheist for 20 years. Got baptized last Sunday.” Thousands of upvotes. Hundreds of comments from people sharing their own stories of coming to faith later in life. Strangers weeping at their keyboards. It was beautiful. And it should terrify us.
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Here’s a number that should wreck every comfortable Christian in America: 365 million believers worldwide face high levels of persecution for their faith. According to Christianity Today’s latest global persecution report, the church is under fire in ways most of us can’t imagine. House churches raided. Pastors imprisoned. Bibles confiscated. Families torn apart for the
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Something unexpected is happening right now. The generation that pollsters call “the least religious in American history” is also the most spiritually hungry. Gen Z is walking away from church buildings — but they are not walking away from God. And if we’re honest, the question that should keep every pastor, every small group leader,