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Are Church Consultants Biblical?

We at Blessing Point Ministries sometimes face resistance to the idea of hiring an “outside consultant” to come alongside a […]

Listen to Rev. Mark Barnard’s (President of Blessing Point Ministries) interview on the Before You Quit podcast hosted by Mitch

How Corporate Repentance Facilitates Ministry Transformation . . . One of the things our ministry recommends when a church finishes

Want to gauge one key, overlooked aspect of your church’s health? Check your congregation’s attitude toward civil authority. The Bible

From a Locked Storage Closet . . . Let me tell you the story of a church in the Northeast

Understanding The Unique Supply of Each Body Part . . . One of the most common forms of repeated pain

Bill Hybels, pastor of one of the largest churches in the nation and founder of a movement of seeker-sensitive ministries

Since its inception in 2013, over 900 pastors and lay leaders have participated in our online ChurchScan Ministry Assessment. The

They called it “bloody Sunday.” It was a day of devastation at the church. The congregation gathered as part of

Tangible Changes Flow from Making Things Right . . . Recently, I ran into the new pastor of a church

Lessons from a blind girl for local churches . . . Helen Keller ranks among the most famous blind people

How does the Holy Spirit speak to a church? When I pose that question to groups of Christians, answers come

After the letter of repentance from Birmingham International Church came out last month in the Birmingham Times (pictured above), a

How one congregation is working to heal America’s wounds – I shared the story a while back of Birmingham International

Can once great ministries recover from historical sin? Over the past couple of years our ministry worked with several once-large

Discerning God’s will for your ministry is always a challenge, but what if your leadership team contains a high degree

Why God Blesses Some Churches More Than Others . . . When I was a new Christian I attended a

“Sweeping things under the rug” is a common idiom to describe the way people (and sometimes churches) handle painful and

We at Blessing Point often deal with ministries where everyone appears to be on a different frequency. Just as a

Why the Protestant Church needs another Ninety-Five Theses . . . In 2017 Protestants celebrated the 500th birthday of the