Outreach Magazine

23/07/2024

Opening your ministry up to new ideas

One of the least talked about issues within churches is innovation. There is talk about the importance of evaluating current approaches in light of ongoing effectiveness, and how strategic it is to be willing to embrace new methods, but those topics are different from the development of an innovativ...

23/07/2024

Breaking: ERLC Removes Brent Leatherwood as President

23/07/2024

Are your beliefs and actions a reflection of your age, upbringing, and culture? Or are they rooted in something deeper, something timeless?

22/07/2024

Underserved parents need help to feed and clothe their babies. So this church, delivers supplies and Christ’s saving message to new parents. Next Step Community Church

The church targets new parents in particular by handing out personal hygiene products, diapers, onesies and baby formula.

22/07/2024

"We aren’t meant to accomplish Jesus’ mission all alone or in competition against others. We need to replace the 'I' with 'we.'”
Dave Ferguson

Reproducing churches replace “grow” with “multiply” because they want to see the kingdom expand from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.

20/07/2024

“I’m grateful that the church is not bricks and mortar or wood, it’s people,” Robert Jeffress told a local news station as First Baptist Dallas' historic sanctuary was being engulfed by flames.

20/07/2024

When death comes unexpectedly, our mortality-awareness-index heightens.

20/07/2024

Generosity is not about money as much as it is about trust.

20/07/2024

Trees appear throughout the Bible as signposts of God's promises and relentless grace.

19/07/2024

I’ve been blessed with good role models. And I have had some leaders who were not so good. Such as the guy who threw my sales book at me across the room. Or the one who criticized me for something literally every week.

19/07/2024

Let’s embrace lifelong learning, cultivate a heart for discipleship, and ignite a fire in ourselves and others for the transformative power of Scripture.

19/07/2024

When our prayers are empowered by Scripture, those prayers often arise most naturally when we have already read, memorized, and deeply considered a passage.

18/07/2024

Recognizing that there is "a time for everything under heaven" encourages us to seek God's timing in all aspects of life.

18/07/2024

“Imagine as a pastor, if you knew literally [in the] last 30 days, what's on the hearts and minds of people in my community. Would that change the way you preach? Would it change the way you think about programs?" -Brad Hill

“You're going to see some pretty startling trends in most U.S. cities about what's really on the minds and the hearts of people.”

18/07/2024

Those who believe the public perception of Christians in the U.S. is worsening say responsibility for the decline belongs to both Christians and the rest of America.

18/07/2024

Pray through every line item. We should not expect God to work through the budget unless it gets special attention through prayer.

18/07/2024

The church gutted one of their vans to convert it into an ice cream truck.

18/07/2024

My wife’s style was more relational. She built relationships over time and introduced Jesus to people more slowly. When she went to the shopping mall, she didn’t evangelize. She shopped. But I also noticed that she had engaged many of her co-workers in Gospel conversat...

My wife’s style was more relational. She built relationships over time and introduced Jesus to people more slowly. When she went to the shopping mall, she didn’t evangelize. She shopped. But I also noticed that she had engaged many of her co-workers in Gospel conversations over time.

18/07/2024

God makes a habit of protecting us from dangers we haven’t even imagined or predicted.

17/07/2024

We miss things that we need for our spiritual walk. It’s easy to choose to do the things we like doing in our Christianity; what’s tough is choosing the things that most convict and challenge our souls.

17/07/2024

Rather than the policies serving the organization, the organization begins to serve the policies. Pretty soon how things are done becomes far more important than what is done.

16/07/2024

“You have welcomed us into your worship service many times over the last decade, yet of all the occasions that we have been here, none are we more honored and grateful than we are today,” said Max Lucado, who was joined onstage by his wife, Denalyn.

Pastor Max Lucado preached at embattled Gateway Church in the Dallas-Fort Worth area this past weekend, giving a sermon titled, “You’ll Get Through This.”

16/07/2024

"He was a man of God, loved Jesus fiercely, and also looked after our church and our members as family," Corey Comperatore's daughter, Allyson, said.

Corey Comperatore was violently shot after he shielded his family from a sniper who was attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania.

16/07/2024

t's not about the pastor's will but about God's will. It's not about the people's desires but about God's desires.

16/07/2024

As the ICF Zurich’s Sunday-evening service grew to about 1,300 mostly Gen Z attendees, Bigger thought, "Why not hand over this service to Gen Z leadership?"

16/07/2024

Our guest engagement begins before they even think about going to church.

16/07/2024

We can be confident that in Christ we have everything we need to succeed.

I’m convinced that the modern evangelical church suffers from a shortage of courageous, confident leaders. We’ve so emphasized humility that we’ve mistaken confidence for pride.

16/07/2024

If we understand the depths of sin that we have been forgiven, we will restore our neighbor with gentleness and humility. We will display the same grace we’ve received from our Lord.

14/07/2024

A possible assassination attempt on the former President Donald Trump’s life took place today (July 13) during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Faith leaders respond.

A possible assassination attempt on the former President Donald Trump’s life took place today (July 13) during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.