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Empowering Your Church through Creativity and Change: 30 Strategies to Transform Your Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

Besides death and taxes there is one sure thing in life for church leaders: people don’t like you messin’ with the status quo. Making changes at church is a little like kicking a sleeping grizzly. Or playing with her cubs. You risk getting mauled. While people say they want change and improvement, they often would rather things stay comfortably familiar. How can a pastor stay creative and...

Before we go any further, let’s define success. Many people have the wrong understanding of it. For Christians, success can never be measured by money. When people say to me, “That man’s worth ten million dollars,” that tells me he’s wealthy, but it doesn’t prove he’s successful. In some cases, it could mean the opposite. For instance, if Mother Teresa, whom I consider a tremendous success, confessed she was hoarding a million dollars, I’d think she was a hypocrite. Money would prove
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