Growing Momentum
How does a church get momentum for transformation? There are four steps to gaining momentum for church transformation. First, in addition to preaching from the “vision lectionary” (see our EBA resources), encourage lay leaders from your team to share their stories of personal transformation in worship. The more individuals talk about how God is reshaping […]
The Team Leader for Worship Teams
Many “Track 2” churches launch several options in worship. They grow to a point, and then seem to plateau. Church leaders are wondering what happened. The quality of worship seems good; the diversity of the public seems to connect. But the worship team participants seem to be getting tired, and the worship services seem to […]
Discernment of Call
Why do so many laity start out passionate and strong, and then become complacent and frustrated? Track 2 churches are often very good at providing motivational and life-changing worship … and they are very successful in drawing people out of worship to discern their spiritual gifts and personality types. Their mistake is that they then […]
Preserving Unity with Multiple Worship Options
The most common complaint about moving to more than one worship service in a track 1 church is that people feel alienated from their former friends. Their unity seems to be disappearing. The real problem is that the church fails to provide a regular, high quality time for fellowship on Sunday morning that will involve […]
Volunteer Development
Every service-oriented organization in the world has realized that volunteer empowerment is both more important to their mission, and more difficult to accomplish. People are too busy to do anything that they are not motivated, trained, and fulfilled in doing. That means your first staff addition, after the pastor, is to add a full time […]
Evangelism for the Rest of Us
Evangelism for the Rest of Us Excerpted from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Evangelism by Bill Tenny-Brittian (Chalice Press, fall 2008) Over the years, especially with the rise of the Enlightenment and Modernity, an understanding crept into the church that mimicked our scientific culture. In science, if it can’t be measured and examined in some way, then […]