by Paul Chappell | Mar 27, 2012 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
Saturday and Sunday were two days of intense outreach and giving at Lancaster Baptist Church. On Saturday, our church family knocked on almost 25,000 doors, sharing the Gospel and inviting people to our resurrection musical. On Sunday, we gave a special offering for...
by Paul Chappell | Mar 3, 2012 | Christian Life
Less than a week before we launched our Elevate & Magnify building campaign, a man in our church who is serving as the volunteer spokesman for the campaign stopped by my office. We talked and planned together for several minutes about upcoming events, and then he...
by Paul Chappell | Feb 27, 2012 | Media/Resources, Ministry Leadership, Spiritual Leadership Podcast
Each year, we have a Deacon’s Orientation—a time when the deacons and their wives come apart for a couple of days of training, equipping, and refreshing so they are better able to represent the Lord, the Pastor, and their church. In this week’s video, I share three...
by Paul Chappell | Feb 22, 2012 | Media/Resources, Ministry Leadership, Spiritual Leadership Podcast
This is one of my favorite leadership lessons. I love the local church! And I love to watch it grow in ways that honor Christ. Some have twisted God’s design for church growth into a methodology of pleasing the unregenerate seeker or a formula of self-gratifying...
by Paul Chappell | Feb 21, 2012 | Ministry Leadership, Ministry News
If there is a story in the Bible that simultaneously encourages and irritates me, it is the account of Nehemiah rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Encouraging? God gave Nehemiah a vision to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. As Nehemiah shared the vision, the people...