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.
Category: Growth
You Aren’t A Slave – So stop Acting Like One!
Some things require more than mere “behavior modification.” Real transformation has to start with identity.
Self-Care Is Not Selfish
I am still inching out of the darkness of a chronic illness, and I haven’t unearthed all the lessons learned. But one lesson presented itself even before the light was visible.And it’s this: self-care is not selfish.
3 Warning Signs You May Not Be “One Church In Multiple Locations”
When multisite strategy is done right, healthy churches reproduce more disciples of Jesus. Unfortunately, my experiences at multisite churches are rarely one unified church meeting in multiple locations.
Missional Community Is a Crockpot, Not a Microwave
I am certain that the food tastes better when cooked in the oven, stove top and for MAXIMUM flavor—cooked for hours in a slow-cooking crockpot. The same is true for growing missional communities.
Googling the Gospel—A True Story
Here’s a story about Googling the gospel, but it starts a long time ago. It begins with people known in the ancient world as “Gentiles.”
Three Ways to Wait
Most of us hate the word wait. It’s a four-letter word that stirs up all sorts of negative emotions. Waiting ranks right up there with a root canal. Necessary, perhaps, but not at all fun. And waiting is often a hope-killer.
Ron Edmondson: 21 Ways to Keep a Church From Growing
There’s nothing wrong with being a small church. I’m not at all opposed to small churches, but I do have a problem with some small church mentalities.
Pastoral Identity Crisis: Have You Built a Moat Around Yourself?
I’ve found that oftentimes we develop what I call the “ministry guise” as an excuse for just about anything “negative” in our churches. Has a pastoral identity crisis caused you to build a moat around yourself?
God, Why Did You Give Me This (One, Lousy) Talent?
John Calvin helped shape the modern meaning of the word “talents” by defining them as gifts from God in the form of a person’s calling and natural abilities, rather than just spiritual gifts.
