Does Your Church’s Culture Honor God?
I was the pastor of a good church but, honestly, it didn’t honor God like it should when it came to new people. We were very friendly to each other, however, guests didn’t seem to find us hospitable. Sadly, the vast majority of churches are like that. What about yours? What is the friendliness status […]
Do You Have the Courage to Lead?
As a pastor, I wasn’t taught or mentored in how to be a leader. So I have had to dig deep inside to prayerfully find and develop an inner leader or suffer the consequences. Perhaps you have been on that same journey. You would understandably assume that being a pastor is about being pastoral. But […]
Does Your Hospitality Have Integrity?
The threat with church hospitality at present is that it can become just another program to get people to church. Hospitality had better be grounded in a true sense of loving God’s people. People often refrain from church these days because of what they determine to be hypocrisy. You could say that that means there […]
The Times They Are A-Changing
Throughout history, especially the last 200 years, everything has constantly and consistently changed. No one would deny that. However, today, it’s not just that things are changing; it’s that nothing is the same as it was just a few years ago. We aren’t just living in changing times; we are living in a time of […]
Are Your Leaders Interested or Committed?
I was reading some business blogs the other day and came across one in Entrepreneur magazine. The president of Fusion Logistics, Joe Judson, was waxing eloquent on one of the measures of success, interest versus commitment, and it got my mind spinning about some church leaders I’ve worked with. Many church leaders are interested in […]
The Worst and Most Avoidable Mistake of Churches
Lousy hospitality seems rampant at churches. We hate it when we see it in other churches, but we don’t seem to be able to address it in our own. We live in a time when even churches get rated on the internet. Of course, word of mouth always has been and always will be the […]