by Paul Chappell | Aug 10, 2015 | Christian Life, Media/Resources, Ministry Leadership
As local church leaders, it is imperative that we keep God—not numeric growth—as our primary goal. When it comes to the local church, Jesus is the Builder; the church is His habitation; and we are His co-laborers, called to labor in winning souls and building...
by Paul Chappell | Aug 6, 2015 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
This is part 2 of a guest post by Dr. R.B. Ouellette. In part one he described complaining critics, casual critics, and crazy critics and listed helpful responses for each. In this post, we pick up with the final two types of critics: Career Critics Ralph Nader...
by Paul Chappell | Aug 3, 2015 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
Growing leaders who desire to finish strong in the work of the Lord must develop a filter through which they receive criticism. To disregard all criticism is prideful and insolates you from help you need. But to try to act on all criticism reveals another type of...
by Paul Chappell | Jul 31, 2015 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
When I think about the early history of Lancaster Baptist Church, I’m in awe at Christ’s power to build His church. In our case, He took a tiny struggling congregation and has built it into a center of soulwinning, outreach, and transformation. And I believe we’ve...
by Paul Chappell | Jul 27, 2015 | Christian Life, Family, Ministry Leadership
Two of the questions that I’m often asked is how a spiritual leader can keep his family a priority in the ministry and how we can encourage our children so they don’t feel resentful toward the ministry. By God’s grace, all four of our children love the Lord and are...
by Paul Chappell | Jul 23, 2015 | Christian Life, Media/Resources, Ministry Leadership
If you’ve had the privilege to know Dr. Don Sisk, you are blessed. In fact, one reason I’m so excited about his recently-published biography, Where Only God Could Lead, is that it shares the story of Dr. Sisk’s life for anyone. (In a moment, I’ll tell you how you can...