Stephen Grunlan

Stephen Grunlan, DMin, is senior pastor of Grace Fellowship, Overland Park, Kansas, United States.

Articles by Stephen Grunlan

How do we measure "measuring up"?

November 1998

The bona fide appraisal of a church's achievement does not rest upon statistics and numbers nearly so much as it does upon the ministry the church performs.

How big is your church? Whenever I am asked that…

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Can these bones live again?

January 2000

Would you be open to a move?" asked the district superintendent. I asked a few questions about the church and then politely declined.

However, the superintendent wanted me to know about the church in San Diego.…

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How do we get them to listen?

January 2001

In an introductory psychology class at a major university, the teacher randomly rang a bell during the lecture. At the sound, the students were to write down what they were thinking about at the moment they heard…

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Discipline in children's ministry settings

April 2007

Have you noticed increased discipline problems in some of our children’s ministries, especially in ministries that draw the most children from outside our church? In this day of increasing single-parent families,…

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Leadership principles from Proverbs

November 2007

I heard a well-known pastor describe the church as the most leadership-intensive organization in the world. Church leaders do not have the authority of military leaders or the financial incentives of the corporate world;…

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