Five Reasons Your Current Church Attendance Is the New Normal
Many church leaders and church members share with me that they are looking forward to the day when everyone is back attending church like...
20 questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Considering Planting a Church
Written by Dr. J. Allen Thompson, President of the International Church Planting Center in Atlanta, and coordinator of multicultural church planting for Mission to...
Contagious Churches by Jim Graff
Are you praying for insight about how your church can impact the unchurched? I remember thinking – “If our church ever becomes popular among the...
4 Great Resources for Good Preaching
I asked people on Twitter to share the characteristics of what they thought comprised a good sermon. I compiled their helpful thoughts and came...
Why Social Media Won’t Grow Your Church the Way You Hoped (building on Digital...
There’s a tension you’re probably feeling as a church leader when it comes to social media. No matter how many new followers you gain,...
Seven Ways Your Church Must Deal with Rapid Change
Though it is cliché, change is the constant in our culture. Even before COVID, the world was changing steadily and constantly. When the pandemic...
Planting Gospel Hope In the Hardest Places
Most of us can’t imagine trying to raise a family on just 50 cents a day. Yet deep poverty is the reality for one...
How the Stand and Greet Time Disappeared In Churches (and How to Replace It)
You don’t hear much about it today, but it was a topic of amusing debate a few years ago.
Its most common name was “stand...
7 Benefits of an Often Overlooked Planning Tool: the Pre-mortem
Jesus recognized the role good planning plays in life and ministry. He said, Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit...
Six Reasons Your Church Welcome Ministry Is More Important Than Ever
“We are the friendliest church in town.”
That sentence or something very similar is the most common statement we’ve heard in interviews we conducted with...
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The Chrino: Christian In Name Only
Nearly seven out of ten (69%, Cultural Research Center) of American adults self-identify as a Christian. With an adult population (18 years and older)...
5 Tips for Leading Effective Meetings
What do you think of when you think of a business meeting? Is it a time to be productive? Or is it a time...
Sometimes We Lead; Sometimes We Follow.
That the leaders led in Israel, and that the people volunteered, O bless the Lord. (Judges 5:2)
No one is a leader all the time...
