We Can’t Predict The Crowd, So Let’s Do Good Ministry
If you do good ministry and don’t see numerical increase, at least you can rest easy knowing you did the right thing.
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Hitting A Church Growth Barrier? Getting Bigger Isn’t Your Only Option
Should pastors adjust our leadership style to accommodate a larger congregation? Or is there a way to allow for and encourage growth that won’t require such a radical shift?
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Dealing With Control Freaks In The Small Church
Small churches don’t attract passive people, unhealthy churches create them. And then, they often become your biggest control freaks. No participation, but lots of opinions.
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The Pastoral Prime Mandate: Equip God’s People To Share The Lead
One of the prime reasons for pastoral burnout is that too many of us are ignoring the simple command to equip God’s people and to share the leadership of the church.
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Church Attendance And The Law Of Large Numbers
According to the Law of Large Numbers, while ideas are often very transferable between large groups, they might completely collapse when they’re transferred to a small group.
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Coming Back Better: Leading Your Congregation Out Of A Traumatic Time (Webinar July 14)
You, your leadership team, and everyone in your church have been impacted on multiple levels over the last year. Are you going to pick up where you left off or move forward toward something greater?
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The Biggest Challenge For Pastors Of Healthy Churches Right Now
In some situations, the pastors of unhealthy churches may be taking better care of their own spiritual, emotional, physical and relational health than the pastors of strong, healthy churches. Here’s why.
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How To Make Your Local Church Invulnerable To Being Shut Down
The more extra-biblical traditions your church requires, the more vulnerable you are. The fewer extra-biblical traditions your church requires, the less vulnerable you are.
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10 Things Churches Stopped During Lockdowns That We Don’t Need to Restart (And 6 We Do)
Yes, we need to gather. But one of the big lessons of this past year is that the health of a church is not determined by how many people show up. Don’t start obsessing over attendance numbers again.
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11 Lessons From The Lockdown That Pastors And Churches Can Build On
Spiritual growth is what kept strong congregations together and should have been our metric for “success” all along. Let’s not go back to counting butts in the seats as our standard ever again.
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