Author: Bill Tenny-Brittian

Bill is the Managing Partner at The Effective Church Group. He began ministry as a church planter in the early 1980s and over the past 40 years he's grown churches from one side of the nation to the other. In 2002 he joined Bill Easum's consultation group and began partnering with churches and church leaders to help them reach their fullest potential. He is the author of twelve books and the editor of Net Results magazine. Reach Bill here.

The Leadership Code

This is an excerpt from our upcoming book, 21st Century Strategies for Church Growth. One of the serious shortcomings of most centers of higher learning is that they educate the head but fail to train the student. The difference between teaching and training is this: effective teaching focuses on passing information from teacher to student (some call […]

The First Strategy for Church Growth

keep pushing

The following post is a rough draft of a section in Chapter 1  in our upcoming book, 21st Century Strategies for Church Growth. Grow Spiritual Leaders to Grow Spiritual Members Today’s spiritual seekers rarely turn to Christianity or to the church to find the answers they seek because of their past experiences or because of the church […]

Bridging the Generational Technology Gaps

Failure Isn't an Option

This post is Part 2 of Bridging the Generational Technology Gaps. The first part (here) examined the different generations. In this post we’ll look at some specifics on bridging the gaps. Before I start, it bears reminding you that there is more to targeting the generations than just tweaking your technology. And though this post […]

Dealing with the Generational Technology Gap

The first technological breakthrough may have been a sharp stick by Homo erectus and it seems to have served them well for a couple hundred thousand years. But when it comes to worship in the 21st century, technological breakthroughs barely last a generation. In today’s church there are effectively four adult technology generations: The Radio Generation, […]

Effective Leadership Demands High Trust

Again, this is a preview from our upcoming book, 21st Century Strategies for Church Growth Streamline Decision Making with High-Trust Leaders In most churches, the decision-making process is cumbersome at best and dysfunctional at worst. The solution to the issue is found in mission and vision alignment and in selecting only trustworthy leaders of integrity – and […]

Leadership Covenants

Pastor? Leader? Really?

I was asked what a church’s leadership covenant should include. I’ve done a training on that for the Conflict CPR Training Set, but here are my thoughts. A 100% commitment to supporting the congregational DNA (mission, values, vision) A commitment to intentional adult spiritual development by participating in a small group or a micro group […]