Leadership Team Building

Dennis McCallum
Dwell home churches are led by teams. This offers a number of advantages, but can cause problems as well. A successful home Church must maintain the unity of its leaders. Disunited teams usually can't lead home church growth and the strength of relationships among leaders directly affects meeting quality. Strong groups nearly always have skilled encouragers and visionaries on board with the maturity to work as a team. For these reasons, it is essential that home church leaders learn to deal with conflicts maturely and quickly. When working with fellow leaders, the following considerations are helpful.

Leading Financial Stewardship in a Home Group

Dennis McCallum
Financial stewardship is a central area of Christian living. Authorities on scripture claim that Jesus taught more on money than any other subject. The epistles also teach often about giving, including strong language warning against refusal to give. Generous giving is presented in the same light as learning scripture, preaching, earnestness for God, and practicing Christian love: "But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also" (2 Corinthians 8:7).

Lessons on Anxiety from Scripture

Mitch Rhodes
In recent years, there has been a growing number of people reporting experiencing anxiety or developing anxiety disorders. This is affecting secular culture as well as Christian community. It is essential that we prepare ourselves with the tools to help others as they struggle with anxiety.

Ministry Greed: Diagnosis & Treatment

Conrad Hilario | Dennis McCallum | John Ross
This paper examines the sources of ministry greed, distinguishes it from healthy ministry hunger, and offers preventative measures.

My View of Myself: In Adam or in Christ

Dennis McCallum
Self focus can be a bad thing, but we all have to think of ourselves. What is the difference between a self-focus in the negative sense, and viewing myself as dead to sin but alive to Christ Jesus?