How can the church reach the most connected—and distracted—generation in history? Here’s how you can get to know Gen Z and reach them.
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Sacred Spaces: How Your Church Building Can Bless Your Community 7 Days a Week
Whether through after-school programs, food pantries, or counseling services, local churches are community hubs providing a variety of resources and meeting multiple needs.
Here are four churches that are using their facilities to serve and bless their communities seven days a week.
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Discipling in an Age of Biblical Illiteracy
America has a literacy problem. Almost 14 percent of the adult population cannot read. But illiteracy isn’t just a problem in secular society. A far worse kind of illiteracy affects the church: Biblical illiteracy.
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5 Tips to Make Your VBS Follow-Up a Success
Don’t leave to happenstance the special opportunity for outreach VBS provides. Churches need to follow up with children and families to help them connect with your congregation on a more permanent basis.
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Bow Your Head, Close Your Eyes, And Offend Your Atheist Friend?
More than 6 in 10 atheists say they’re uncomfortable when someone asks to pray with them. That far outpaces other public displays of faith.
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4 Surprising Groups Not Showing up on Sunday
When pastors look out across the congregation during worship service, who’s missing?
New data from the General Social Survey reveals some groups avoiding religious services that church leaders may not have expected.
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