We were talking about preaching to your target audience – your Outreach Avatar – and one of my preaching students shared that one of his elders was complaining about the sermon du jour on
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We were talking about preaching to your target audience – your Outreach Avatar – and one of my preaching students shared that one of his elders was complaining about the sermon du jour on
When I served as a pastor – and in almost every church I served – one of the complaints I occasionally heard was that someone wasn't being spiritually fed. Apparently, that's not a new
Years ago, I took a business management course and I believe it was Tom Peters who drilled it into my head that when leadership determines the need for a culture change, that it
There are two ways to try and grow a church. Plan A has years of tradition behind it: Convince those in the pews to get off of their blessed assurance and move out
Think about the implications of that statement. If you're committed to growing your church, that means: The people you're trying to reach intentionally didn't want to go to church. And more to the
To become a part of the Next Level for Church Growth Pastors Group (a private Facebook Group), a pastor has to answer three questions. Question #2 is about Church Growth. It's always amused