Author: Karl Vaters

The 3 Kinds of Church People You MUST Know if You’re Going to Plant

These 3 types will interact in different ways that can either benefit your church or threaten to tear it apart.

Warning: Is your church an endangered species?

There’s nothing wrong with traditional methods of doing church. As long as you want to minister to traditional church members.

If changing important, but extra-biblical church traditions bothers you, you may not want to read the rest of this post.

If you don’t own it, you can’t change it.

As pastors, we don’t even need to be angry for our words – even true words – to hurt people unnecessarily.

There’s a large and growing number of people who say they’re done with church, including many clergy.

Pastor, does it bug you when you see people on their cell phones when you’re preaching?

Things we say and do that our regulars take for granted, but can be confusing and frustrating to newcomers.

Small churches should have a baseline of quality that people can rely on.