Hey everyone. And welcome back to the Mark Prater podcast, where our aim is to connect our global family of churches with our Executive Director. Mark, this season has been challenging for pastors. It was challenging to shut down and seek to pastor our churches remotely, unable to gather together, but it could be for some of us that the challenge of reopening and what that has been bringing into our church is maybe harder than the previous one. Do you have any thoughts about that?…
Read MoreI have always had, a Love/Hate relationship with evangelism – I love the concept, I would love to be successful, I would love for it to be easy and natural, mostly I would love to see people saved and added to local churches. I don’t think any Christian or local church will ever be completely joyful and fulfilled unless passionately involved in evangelism and seeing people saved. I believe God created us to be that way because we are created after His image and He is that way. I believe the joy and fulfillment we will experience is the very joy and fulfillment God experiences…
Read MoreHey everyone. Welcome back to the Mark Prater podcast where our aim is to connect our global family of churches with our Executive Director. Mark, you guys have a Leadership Team retreat next week, I believe. And while you're at that retreat, one of the things you're going to be talking about is church planning…
Read MoreHey everyone and welcome back to the Mark Prater podcast where our aim is to connect our global family of churches with our Executive Director, Mark. You know, we in Sovereign Grace, we're not just leaders. As we lead our church, we're also pastors, of course. And so we've talked about some leadership issues and past podcasts recently, but what are some categories that you would encourage us as we seek to pastor those in our church through this crisis?…
Read MoreHey everyone. And welcome back to the Mark Prater podcast where our aim is to connect our global family of churches with our Executive Director, Mark. As we continue to navigate through this pandemic, as pastors carrying various burdens hearing a diverse collection of voices and perspectives from our church. What thoughts, what suggestions would you have to encourage us to prepare our hearts and our minds as we communicate to our churches?…
Read MoreHey everyone and welcome back to the Mark Prater podcast where our aim is to connect our global family of churches with our Executive Director. Mark, we're talking about reopening as the conversation continues and we navigate through this pandemic. There are some Sovereign Grace churches that have begun to gather again. Why don't you tell us about that?…
Read MoreYou likely have seen recent updates on Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan Guidance. But I want to make sure you are aware of this important update…
Read MoreHey everyone. Welcome back to the Mark Prater podcast where our aim is to connect our global family of churches with our Executive Director. Mark last time, last week, we talked about how Sovereign Grace Churches has been stepping up to embrace the privilege of financially providing for partners globally who are really struggling even more than we are when it comes to food shortages and things like that…
Read MoreIf you could change anything about yourself to make you more effective in evangelism, what would you change? I’ve asked this question to many people, over many years, in many different places. Typically people will say: “I wish I were bolder.”, “I wish I knew how to answer questions better.”, “I wish I was more outgoing.” …
Read MoreGiven that most schools are utilizing “virtual learning” during the COVID-19 pandemic, Greg Love and Kimberlee Norris at MinistrySafe developed a risk analysis and best practices (below) to help educators and teachers to protect children from online abuse…
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