If It’s a Stewardship Crisis… Then Let’s Start Acting Like Stewards
Church health requires more than talk. Here are 6 practical steps to steward pastors, resources, and mission for real Gospel impact.
Church health requires more than talk. Here are 6 practical steps to steward pastors, resources, and mission for real Gospel impact.
There’s a moment most people hit eventually. You’ve been grinding. Showing up. Doing what you know how to do. And it’s not working. Not a little slow. Nothing. No traction. No payoff. Just effort disappearing into the dark. That’s where this story starts. A group of guys go out to fish, something they’ve done their…
Is the Church facing a pastor shortage—or a stewardship crisis? A bold look at church health, mission, and why maintaining decline isn’t faithfulness.
Easter night. The tomb is empty.The women have seen it.The word is spreading. And the disciples? Nope. They’re not celebrating. They’re not organizing a movement.They’re not drafting a mission statement.They’re not running into the streets shouting, “He’s alive!” They are behind locked doors. That detail matters more than we usually let it. Because these aren’t strangers…
It was still dark when Mary got there. She wasn’t coming to celebrate. She wasn’t coming to see an empty tomb or meet a risen Savior. She was coming with spices and oils to do the final, heartbreaking work of honoring a dead body. She loved Jesus enough to show up in the dark to…
WE GOT HIM.Three words that cut through chaos. Somewhere deep in hostile territory, everything changed in a moment.A downed pilot. Isolated. Vulnerable. Waiting. Hoping. Praying someone was coming. Then the call came back over the radio: We got him. Mission accomplished.Target secured.Life saved. Those three words ripple outward.They hit a man first—you’re not alone anymore.Then…
You ever go somewhere expecting one thing… and walk out with way more than you planned? You run into a store for “just one thing”… and somehow leave with a full cart.You order something simple… and they upgrade you for free.You show up for a quick conversation… and it turns into something that actually changes…
There’s a line from C. S. Lewis that doesn’t leave you much room to hide: “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, is of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is of moderate importance.” Here’s the problem: Most people don’t reject Jesus. They just reduce Him. We Don’t Deny Jesus. We Shelf…
You’re exhausted. Everything hurts. Life feels like it’s crushing you from the inside out. Work, relationships, your dreams, maybe even your faith, everything seems to be failing at once. You’ve begged for relief, shouted for it, prayed for it, but nothing changes. And now… now you just want out. You want it to stop. You…
A raw reflection on how quickly life can change—and why it often takes a crisis to realize what actually matters most.