As a young minister, I attended many leadership seminars with my pastor. These seminars were taught by well-known megachurch pastors and leading church-growth experts and gave us notebooks filled with detailed instructions about how to do church more effectively. After … Continue reading No Silver Bullets | Book Review
In today’s #InfluencePodcast, Daniel Im and I talk about how new book, No Silver Bullets: 5 Small Shifts That Will Transform Your Ministry. Daniel argues that churches need to make five micro-shifts in ministry: (1) from destination to direction, (2) from output to input, (3) … Continue reading Daniel Im | Influence Podcast
Today, over at InfluenceMagazine.com: “Between 2001 and 2008,” Jerry Ireland writes, “missions budgets for evangelism and discipleship declined by almost 11 percent, while funds for relief and development work increased by nearly 9 percent.” My guess is that this trend … Continue reading Monday’s Influence Online Articles
Today, over at InfluenceMagazine.com: John Davidson interviews Daniel Im for the Influence Podcast regarding how churches can more effectively train volunteers and leaders. We note a new report from Grey Matter Research and Consulting about slipping support for charitable tax … Continue reading Monday’s Influence Online Articles
Ed Stetzer and Daniel Im, Planting Missional Churches: Your Guide to Starting Churches That Multiply, 2nd ed. (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2016). Though I am neither a church planter nor the son of a church planter, I read the second edition of Planting Missional Churches by Ed Stetzer and Daniel Im with interest. Why? Because it raises questions and teaches ways of thinking about the answers that all North American church leaders need to consider in our increasingly post-Christian society. The process of post-Christianization may be further along in Canada, but of late, the United States seems to be making up … Continue reading Review of ‘Missional Church Planting’ by Ed Stetzer and Daniel Im
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