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A Word of Caution for Your New Year’s Planning

by Dr. Paul Chappell | Dec 14, 2017 | Ministry Leadership, Spiritual Leadership Podcast

As we’re just weeks away now from the start of a new year, most of us are thinking toward what changes we’d like to make or goals we’d like to pursue in the coming twelve months. As a pastor, I’m already weeks into preparing ministry goals for our church, and I’m...

7 Tips for Training a New Soulwinner

by Dr. Paul Chappell | Sep 22, 2017 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership

This week at Lancaster Baptist Church, we launched our fall soulwinning season for the thirty-second consecutive year. Of all the different types of outreach we do as a church, nothing beats consistently sharing the gospel one person at a time. And biblically, this is...

If You Could Only Remember So Much…

by Dr. Paul Chappell | Aug 18, 2017 | Christian Life, Family

If you could only remember about six to ten Bible verses, what would you want them to be? What if you could only remember about ten minutes worth of material, what would you want that to be? My mom, who is battling Alzheimer’s, is in this position. When I had the...

We Have to Do Something

by Dr. Paul Chappell | Aug 11, 2017 | Ministry Leadership

I snapped the picture above as we were recently driving into Los Angeles. And my heart was gripped by the numbers on it. Four million people in this one city—just seventy miles from where I pastor. And the population listed on the sign is just Los Angeles proper. If...

The Missing Element in Our Witness

by Dr. Paul Chappell | Jul 28, 2017 | Christian Life

We could list many reasons we don’t share the gospel as we should. Fear of rejection Misplaced priorities Lack of training Lack of leadership Bloated church calendars But I believe most of the time it goes deeper than all of these. We don’t share the gospel because we...