How to Change Things Up & Get Your Church Growing Again
When plateau and church stagnation set in it can be even more difficult to know what to do next. Here are a few things you can do right now to begin to change the trajectory of your church.
Category: Strategy
Reach Everyone by Removing Preaching Assumptions
If we hope to lead everyone in the room to the truth of our message, we must start by connecting everyone in the room to us and our message. That’s not a simple task. We must remove preaching assumptions.
7 Important Reasons You Need to Communicate Effectively
Effective communication with your team isn’t just important, it’s crucial to ministry success. Here are seven reasons you should communicate effectively…
Adrian Pei’s Excellent Book: The Minority Experience
For those of us who believe that a diverse church who reflects the joy and creativity of Jesus is a beautiful, credible witness to our divided, broken world—and that this is a glimpse of the fullness of redemption on the way (Revelation 7:9-10)—this is essential work.
If You Don’t Know Millennials’ Zero-Tolerance Policy, You’ll Never Reach Them
Articles, Leadership, Strategy
A church’s “cool factor” isn’t what’s bringing in Millennials.
Digital Discipleship? 11 Intentional Steps to Get You Started
The very thing Jesus told His church to do was to make disciples, and if people are spending their time online, the church should be there making them into disciples: digital disciples.
Effective Congregational Care: Help Your Church Thrive
Articles, Leadership, Strategy
I’d been a pastor for several years before I received the revelation of effective congregational care. It hit me like a ton of bricks and soon became a revolution that changed my life and ministry forever.
A Unique Church Planting Strategy: Meet People Where They Live
The Community Care Network employs a unique church planting strategy to reach people—literally—where they live. Here’s their story.
Christmas Preaching? Preach Jesus!
Christmas preaching matters. Many of us as preachers feel trapped—our people expect a sermon or a series of sermons taken directly from the Christmas story they know and love.
Why plant churches? To make disciples!
Discipleship is the great calling of the church, and the only soil that grows disciples is a local church culture of spiritual formation. Why plant churches? To make disciples!
