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Small Church Hall of Fame: The Pilgrims
The people we now know as Pilgrims weren’t the only ones who were dissatisfied with the way things were in England. But they made a difference because they took action. Like a lot of their bible heroes, they left where they were without knowing where they’d end up. For many world-changers, action comes first. A plan comes later.
Adapt Or Die: 6 Ways to Create a Change Culture In Your Church
Because of our size, Small Churches are more capable of changing than our larger counterparts. Here are 6 steps many innovative Small Churches have taken to bake change into the core of who they are.
Reaching the World for Jesus is Too Important for Megachurches to Do Alone
Megachurches, we’re with you. You’re our brothers and sisters in Christ. Our partners in ministry. We know that the task of reaching our communities, nations, cultures and world is an enormous one. And an enormously important one. We don’t expect you to do it alone. It’s time for the 90% to come alongside the 10% and get our hands dirty together.
Killing the Megachurch Jealousy Monster – Before It Kills You
In the last few months I’ve heard two true stories about overcoming jealousy in ministry. Both stories have surprising similarities and contain a great lesson about overcoming a problem that happens to Small Church pastors more than we’d like to admit.
Forget the 200 Barrier – Small Churches Need to Break Through the Grasshopper Barrier
We need to retire the 200 Barrier from our church leadership lexicon. It makes some dangerous assumptions, starting with the assumption that over 200 is better than under 200. But the Grasshopper Barrier is a toxic mindset that keeps churches and pastors from recognizing The Grasshopper Myth for the lie that it is. That’s the barrier we need to break.
Your Church’s Mission Statement: Do It First, Write It Later
Writing a mission statement should be one of the last things a church does, not one of the first. The only real hope that a church will follow through on their mission statement is if it’s based on what the church is already doing.
We Need Each Other: And 20+ More Reasons to Have a Small Church Pastors’ Workshop
We need a Small Church Pastors’ Workshop for the same reasons we go to church. It’s about more than uploading relevant information. You can’t get everything you need from a book, a DVD or a website. We were created to be in the same room with people. Especially fellow believers. And fellow Christian leaders.
Deal-Breakers: 7 Ways God May Tell You to Leave Your Church
Do I stay, or do I go? It’s one of the toughest questions a pastor has to face. The question for many pastors, especially in Small Churches is “how do I know which issues are worth fighting through and which ones are signs that it’s time to leave?”
5 Problems With Top-Down Vision-Casting – And a New Testament Alternative
Have we been doing vision-casting wrong? I think so. For maybe a generation or more. I was at a church conference not long ago where the leader spent all his time trying to convince the assembled leadership team to get behind his vision for the group. They like the leader, but very few of the
