The Church Can Learn Something from Steve Jobs

At a Worldwide Developers Conference Steve Jobs said:

One of the things I’ve always found is that you’ve got to start with the customer experience ...

A Test of Leadership

This is one of the tests of leadership: that you recognize what affects people, not what should affect people.

Meeting Needs or Meeting God?

As the church today gets more and more hip--more and more need-oriented, responding to the buttons that people push in their pews--I find myself longing ...

Junk Food Isn't Enough

The biggest enemy of the Church is the development and proliferation of programs to meet people's needs. Everyone has a hunger for God, but our tastes ...

Audience Insensitivity

To speak about global issues to inner-city people with their problems and never speak to their issues is to fail them.

Bridge-Building

Preaching is essentially a bridge-building exercise. It is the exacting task of relating God's Word to our world with an equal degree of faithfulness ...

Acid Test for a Sermon

Here is an acid test for a sermon: Will it hold up if you change the setting from a public to a person-to-person situation? Take away the pulpit, the ...

A Method of Evangelism

When I evangelize, I'm simply trying to describe people's deepest concerns and show how Jesus addresses them.

The Deepest Needs

Meeting "felt needs" is not enough, because people do not always feel their deepest needs.