Insights from in and around the association
UBA Voices
Healthy Church Work: Why Steve Bezner Loves UBA
Pastor Steve Bezner of Houston Northwest highlights how the Union Baptist Association works to support healthy church work in every nook and cranny of the greater Houston area.
Church Renewal is an Urgent Gospel Issue
6 in 10. That's the number put out by Lifeway Research concerning the number of churches in North America that are plateaued or declining in number. That's grim news. We mourn the 6 in 10 because of the loss of gospel witness. So we must work to see church renewal starting here in Houston.
Preparing to Innovate
In a dramatic scene of the 1987 movie The Untouchables, Jim Malone presses Eliot Ness on what he is willing to do to finally catch Al Capone. Though I'm certainly not advocating for illegal activity as Malone was, I think it's a great picture of what we need to innovate and reach gospel saturation in and beyond our city.
If your way isn’t working where you are, are you prepared to learn a new way? As leaders, we need to be asking ourselves and allowing trusted people in our lives to ask us the same question: “What are you prepared to do?”