In 16 years as a pastor, I was a part of planting two successful churches. My most recent experience was in church revitalization, and we did experience some success there, but I still hear get questions about church planting. The two questions I get asked most: If you were planting another church… What would you…
On the first Sunday of 2019, our church started a Sunday evening service. Actually, it’s more accurate to say that we “resurrected” it. Like many churches, our Sunday night service died a slow death years earlier. The funeral was over by the time I became pastor. For the next several years, most of us were…
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Are you considering launching a multisite church campus? Churches tend to make at least one of these 6 mistakes in the early days of launching new campuses.
We began to see the issue was fruit, not knowledge: God was concerned with the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
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.
As it approaches the end of its third decade, multisite church has become the mainstream idea for healthy, growing churches of all kinds and sizes.
Every day, up to eight times a day, I silently perform a 1-3 minute spiritual ritual that is – quite literally – changing me. It’s called the Daily Examen.
A Pew survey found that 69% of people believe that religious leaders act unethically some, if not all, of the time. Pastors face a crisis of trust.
Some things require more than mere “behavior modification.” Real transformation has to start with identity.
