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This season is a bridge.

The past couple of months may have felt like a dead end-churches closing, people hurting, and ministries shifting.

But God never leads us to a dead end.

Pastor Whit George from Church on the Move shares how they''ve viewed this season as a bridge to a "new normal" versus a temporary detour.

Like Pastor Whit shared: it takes faith to enter a space you don't know. For many churches, church online was that new space. We've been sharing great resources for reopening your churches and kids ministry-and we celebrate that many churches are reopening their physical locations-but we also know that God continues to use church online to reach people far from Him. 

As we reopen physical buildings, let''s continue to embrace technology to reach people who don''t feel comfortable returning to our churches just yet-and those we might only reach through online ministry.

Church Online Resources

From training your online hosts to engaging families to building community, these resources will help you maximize your church online experience and lead attenders to next steps.

• Complete Kids Online Services

  • Life.Church

  • GROW

• Church Online Hosts: Complete Guide
  
  

• Church Online: Prayer Resource Guide

• Leveraging Facebook Groups

• Church Online Worship Sets

• Copyright Limitations on Streaming

• 9 Ways to Connect With Online Attenders

16 Social Media Ideas

Social media is a great way to engage people in your church. But, is your post adding value or adding noise? View this blog post to hear how you can engage attenders on social media and see 16 examples of social media posts you can do this week.

Do not grow weary.

Can you believe we're halfway through 2020? 

This year has been a year like no other, but despite the challenges around us and in us, amazing things are continuing to happen in the global Church. 

Galatians 6:9 ESV reminds us, "And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up."

Let us not grow weary. We will reap. Don''t give up.

Regardless of how you may feel, there is more in you. God has more to do through you and your church. When the world gets darker, our light shines brighter. Keep leading strong and reflect the love of Jesus to this lost and broken world. Don''t give up.

5 Questions for Your Team 

As you lead your team strongly in this season, schedule a checkpoint with them this month. Below are a few questions we're processing as a team-use these as a springboard for your discussions. 

1. How are you staying connected to the source-Jesus?

2. How have you seen God move in this time?

3. How are you finding time for play and rest?

4. How has COVID-19 impacted your work/life rhythms, and is there anything I can do to help?

5. How specifically could I be praying for you?

Continue to grow in your leadership and make important decisions for your church with the help of these episodes from the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast. Listen by yourself or gather your team together for a lunch-and-learn event and grow together.

BONUS: In this season, leading can be particularly difficult. Hear Pastor Craig provide leadership tips in these timely episodes: Leading from Home and Leading Through Crisis.

Daily Declarations

Scripture tells us that our words have the power of life or death. What have you been speaking over your church? Your team? Your family? Yourself?

Pastor Craig Groeschel shared his "Words to Live By," daily biblical declarations he says aloud to himself every morning. Read more about them here.

You can create daily declarations for your team, too. In a challenging season, choose truths rooted in scripture to help you and your team stay focused on the mission God has called you to. 

Lead through the dip.

During a "dip"-a time of crisis, failure, or decline-many leaders think the way to save their organization is to be better and work harder. But, last week in the opening talk at the 2020 Global Leadership Summit, Pastor Craig Groeschel gave leaders four tools to lead strong through the dip:

1. Change how you think about change.

2. Have the courage to unmake promises. 

3. Obsess over the "why." 

4. Lead with confident uncertainty.

Learn more about each area of focus, and then put this session into practice by answering some key reflection questions.

Life.Church Worship released a new EP today, Jesus Is Near. Learn more about the album and each song, and then download everything you need to use these powerful songs in your church.

A Note from Life.Church Worship:

Anthems of hope. Even before our world began to face an unprecedented season of heartbreak and uncertainty, God had already laid these songs on our hearts. In Jesus Is Near, we proclaim this undeniable truth: no matter how we feel, we are never alone. He gives us hope. God is intimately concerned with every detail of our lives. He''s with us in every high and every low. He is near.

See what''s on the album

"Heaven's All Around"

"Heaven's All Around" is an expectant, bold invitation for God to come do what He wants to do in our lives, in our church, and in the global church. Whatever we''re going through, this song gives us confidence that God is near and ready to move in our lives.

"Never Will"

No matter how we feel, no matter what blanket of numbness may be pressing down on us, God is there. He "Never Will" let go or leave. There's nothing too dark or too deep to make Him walk away or withdraw His hand from us. 

"I Won''t Move"

When we take the time to slow down and wait on the Lord, He's faithful to meet us. "I Won''t Move" is a heart cry from us to God that we're willing to surrender, and it's a prayer for us to sing over ourselves until we're able to still our hearts and wait for Him. 

"When I Say Jesus" (Studio Version)

"When I Say Jesus" anchors our faith in the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. It reminds us that there's hope and power in the name of Jesus. The very mention of His name can get us through life's most difficult circumstances. 

"Heaven's All Around" (Reimagined)

The reimagined, acoustic version of "Heaven's All Around" came about during our time of social distancing earlier this year. Life.Church Worship released these different versions to bring people along on the journey from where the song began to where God has taken it in this season. 

Acoustic Worship Sets from Hillsong

Our partner, Hillsong Leadership Network, has generously provided eight videos of the Hillsong Worship team's acoustic worship for your church to use. These videos are free of charge to equip and encourage you in this season where many churches are still primarily meeting online.