Four Keys to a Successful Church Year in 2018

Podcast Episode #400

We celebrate our 400th episode by discussing four keys for how churches can be successful in their ministry this year.

Some highlights from today’s episode include:

We have mission drift in many of our churches.
You cannot make incremental adjustments to become outwardly focused. It must be a major shift.
If your church is focused on outreach, it will likely have fewer distractions and arguments about inward issues.
The greatest distraction in churches is often disunity.
The body of Christ is designed to work together in unity.

The four keys we cover are:

Increase your efforts to reach your community by fourfold.
Focused your congregation to pray John 17:20-23 as an ongoing prayer effort.
Make a concerted effort to abandon the entitlement mentality.
Pray for hearts that would be willing to accept new paradigms.

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