Is Weekend Attendance Your Only Metric?
For 30 years the primary indicator of health in churches is weekend attendance. The challenge is that healthy things aren’t the only things that grow.
Author: Geoff Surratt
How To Deal With Criticism (Other Than Fighting Back)
On Monday morning the signed and anonymous comments will be piled in a neat stack on your desk. A cornucopia of advice on everything from how to preach to how to dress to how to raise your kids. How do you answer the onslaught of unsolicited advice? How do you deal with criticism?
How to Handle Moral Failure
Every ministry should address the issue of how to handle moral failure. We hope it’s never necessary to address such a problem, but preparation and honest discussion are a big part of effective leadership.
How Your Church Plant Can Overflow With Volunteers
Are you asking, How can we find enough volunteers?
Do You Want to Lead Great Discussions? 10 Commandments
Facilitation is a blast when done right, and is a way to help people and teams become better.
Why You Might Need to Have Lunch With a Heretic
When I shelter myself from people with a different understanding of God, my thinking becomes very shallow.
10 Hidden Secrets of Multisite Churches
Even with consultants, books and conferences, there are still secrets to be told about multisite.
Do We REALLY Need to Plant More Churches?
Do we need another cocoon for the already convinced, or something more?
Why Great Leaders Have Dysfunctional Teams and Fuzzy Goals
How’s this for a definition of leadership: Helping slightly dysfunctional people perform mundane tasks to accomplish fuzzy goals.
The God of Liars, Cheats and Cowards?
In modern terms Jacob was a hot mess, but God chooses to be known as the God of Jacob.
