Dear Pastor,
Today I'm sharing one life-changing quote from A. W. Tozer, a prominent Christian pastor and author in the early and mid-20th century:
“It is not perfection, but holy intention that ple...
Today I'm sharing 5 top quotes from Vance Havner, a man described as "The Dean of America's Revival Preachers."
"God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give ...
"The call of Christ is the call to abandon everything that competes with Him."
"The call of God is not extraordinary work, but ordinary work done in an extraordinary way."
"Beware of competing calls...
Dear Pastor,
Today I'm sharing 5 top quotes from A. W. Tozer, a prominent Christian pastor and author in the early and mid-20th century:
"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the mos...
"Prayer does not equip us for greater works—prayer is the greater work."
"We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible’s idea of
prayer is that we may get to know God Hims...
Pastors, need a bit of inspiration for yourself, your sermons or your congregation? Look no further than Oswald Chambers, author of the world's bestselling devotional, My Utmost for His Highest.
In rem...
Pastors, need a bit of inspiration for yourself, your sermons or your congregation?
Look no further than Vance Havner, a man described as "The Dean of America's Revival Preachers." Billy Graham once ...
Big Idea #4 from Understanding Church Growth:
Of the three kinds of church growth, conversion growth should be your goal.
The three kinds of church growth are: biological, transfer and conversion. Conve...
Big Idea #7 from Understanding Church Growth:
Don’t insist on moral reform as a prerequisite to becoming a disciple.
As pastors, we need to allow room for our people to grow. People do not need to be pe...
Big Idea #3 from Understanding Church Growth:
Do not neglect the important steps of assimilation and ongoing discipleship.
Donald McGavran writes that the church must be faithful in “folding and feeding...
Big Idea #6 from Understanding Church Growth:
Church planters who enable people to become Christians without crossing barriers are more effective — people prefer to join churches whose members look, ta...
Big Idea #1 from Understanding Church Growth:
Don’t grow content with mediocrity or stagnancy.
We are called not simply to search, but to find. Results matter. As pastors, we must set membership goals a...
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Meet Dr. Nelson Searcy
Nelson Searcy is the Founding and Lead Pastor of The Journey Church, with locations across New York City and in Boca Raton, FL. By God’s grace, he identified and developed the Eight Systems of a Healthy Church® that he has used to coach over 5,000 churches in the US and around the world to adapt those eight systems to their unique ministry fields, resulting in great health and growth.
Nelson regularly coaches pastors online and in-person through the Church Leader Insights and Renegade Pastors Network ministries that he founded. He also leads several annual pastor in-person conferences and online training events. In ministry for more than 25 years, Nelson and his church routinely appear on lists such as “The 50 Most Influential Churches” and “The 25 Most Innovative Leaders.”
He is the author of over 100 church growth resources and 20+ books, including The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life and Ministry, The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact, and Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests Into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church. Nelson is the recipient of the prestigious Donald A. McGavran Award for Outstanding Leadership in Great Commission Research.
He is a longtime student of church history, especially mastering the areas of evangelism and church growth. He divides his time between NYC and South Florida. He battled Stage 4 cancer and has been cancer-free since 2018, praise God! He has an amazing wife, Kelley, and a teenage son, Alexander, who continues to grow in so many ways.
