Leadership

  1. Your Guests (hopefully) Don’t Pray About Joining Your Church

    It sounds like one of those sensational headlines designed to trick you into clicking on something, only to find an ad waiting for you, but I think there's something worth considering as you build your guest ministry.

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  2. What Keeps Our Churches from Sustained Growth?

    We know we want our churches to be healthy and experience growth. Sustained growth means we are consistently reaching new hearts for Christ! But with roughly 80% of US churches experiencing decline, what is keeping our churches from growing?

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  3. An Eye-Opening Guest Experience

    Confession time: my husband and I have a favorite guest speaker at our church. In fact, attendance is consistently higher when this pastor visits to preach! So a couple of years ago, we decided to visit his home church as a part of our anniversary date. And boy, were we surprised!

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  4. What I Wish I Knew Before Volunteering

    Your volunteers are part of creating a friendly welcoming atmosphere at your church.

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  5. The Art of Actively Waiting

    Can’t God do things instantly?

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  6. How to Deliver Constructive Criticism

    If you have been in ministry longer than say a week than you have received some form of criticism.

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  7. A Good Assistant Goes a Long Way

    Aside from a supportive spouse, there are few people who can support a pastor like an assistant.

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  8. How Big Is Your Vision

    If you were to ask ten people in your congregation what your churches vision is what would they say? How about ten random people in the community?  I always loved Andy Stanley’s definition of vision:

    “Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion that it should be.”

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  9. Learning How to Use Social Media

    Love it or hate it Social Media is here to stay.

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  10. 6 Disruptive Church Trends That Will Rule 2017

    Perhaps more than ever there are people analyzing the health of the Christian Church in real time.

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