308 West Blvd N, Columbia, MO 65203 573-463-5923 info@effectivechurch.com

Blogs - The Effective Church Group - The Effective Church Group

    You Are Here!
  • Home
  • Blogs – The Effective Church Group ( Page 151 )
April 1, 2014 2 Comments

Two Axioms for Pulling the Trigger Why is it so hard for pastors to pull the trigger and institute something new? Why do so many resist doing what they know needs done? Let

March 31, 2014 1 Comment

[fvplayer src='https://s3.amazonaws.com/MiscVideo/CommunionInstructionsLow.mp4' splash="http://21stcenturystrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/CommunionPlayButton.png"] Click Image to Play Video This is one of the best guest-friendly introductions to communion I've seen. Notice that Pastor Ted tells the congregation virtually every detail of how to receive

February 13, 2014 1 Comment

The latest blog post by Bill Easum sparked a number of lively conversations on both our LinkedIn and Facebook accounts. I started to reply there, but as my response grew, it seemed more

February 8, 2014 3 Comments

Recently, on Bloomberg TV, The Titans featured Bill Gates and Mike Bloomberg. Bloomberg said something that all churches should ponder for a week. He said, "Technology will advance more in the next couple of

January 14, 2014 0 Comments

Our culture keeps on marching... and unfortunately, the North American church seems to fall further and further behind. I regularly begin church training exercises by showing the "Shift Happens" YouTube video that was

January 11, 2014 4 Comments

Let's be honest. Most of us pastor-types were taught to preach primarily to a modern, well-churched or church-experienced audience. The target of our preaching was essentially "one of us." We weren't really taught