Leadership

  1. The Best Time to Make Major Changes in Your Church

    It's common to hear stories of churches that come face to face with a financial crisis and decide that it's finally time to make some changes to their style of ministry. But what about churches that aren't facing a financial crisis and don't "have" to change to stay afloat?

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  2. Four Ways Churches Break Attendance Barriers


    If you want to grow your church, then you have to face the reality that growth in attendance means that more people actually need to attend your church.

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  3. The Dark Side of Vision

    If you've been around the church any amount of time you've probably seen this play out: A leader casts a vision for an event, or a ministry or a season, and before he finishes exhaling the room starts splitting in half. Some (hopefully most!) people are on board, but there are others who resent the idea and either grumble and complain, or leave the organization.

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  4. Are You Preparing for Growth?


    It's easy to prepare for disasters (fire insurance, fire extinguishers, escape plans) but what about church growth?

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  5. Bring On the Numbers

    Every number has a name, every name has a story, and every story matters to God.

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  6. Do They Know Where To Look?

    Every church has information it is trying to communicate. So, you have a bulletin, a website, weekly announcements, facebook, twitter, signs, newsletters, banners, etc… all to get the message across. While these are great tools for communicating with your congregation and making sure they are informed about what is going on in the church and community, do they know where to look?  Jon Rogers reminds us that, “Your church may have stellar events, programs and even great communication strategies, but the best laid plans can get derailed by the simple lack of clearly and concisely communicating how you communicate.”

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  7. The Importance of Effective Communication

    Ever wonder how effective your church is at communicating with your congregation?

    If not, maybe it’s time you start.

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  8. Is Your Church Boring? Maybe It Should Be...

    If you’re in leadership, you’ve probably said, heard or read the church vision or mission statements more times than you can count. At some point, it starts sounding boring to you.

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  9. Procrastination..... Let's talk about this later.

    What comes to mind when you think of how your church is about accomplishing tasks? Whether the project is writing a newsletter, creating slides for announcements, or choosing the next sermon series, chances are you might describe it as one of the following:

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  10. Is Your Church Too Busy for People?

    Jesus made it clear that the need for volunteers is never going to end. For many churches, it’s that need for volunteers that hinders them from accomplishing everything they really want to do. While the need for more workers is never ending, what happens when we don’t respond to the questions and needs of the people we already have?

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