The 5 Biblical Tasks of a Pastor (And What’s Not One)
The biblical tasks of a pastor are five, not fifty. Lead, disciple, cast vision, equip, deploy. Here’s why the rest is killing your ministry.
Choose Church Board Members Who Won’t Sabotage You
Learn how to choose church board members using the Acts 6:3 standard. Three criteria that separate dream team leaders from the warm bodies killing your mission.
Pastor’s Guide to Strategic Church Planning for 2026
The Calendar Turn Isn’t the Reset Button We Wish It Were By the time the new year’s calendar flips, most pastors are running on fumes. Christmas is over. Attendance did whatever it did. You preached your heart out. You shook the hands. You smiled through it. And now you’re staring down another year, hoping this […]
Church Growth Strategies That Stop Wasting Resources
Discover why vague outreach wastes resources and how clear church growth strategies can build a sustainable, thriving congregation.
How to Whitelist Our Emails
To be sure our messages don’t end up in your Spam or Junk folder, please tell your email program to trust emails from:@effectivechurch.com Here’s how to do that in the most common email programs and browsers: Gmail (Google Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox) Outlook (desktop or web) Apple Mail (on Mac) Yahoo Mail That’s it! Once […]
The Church Growth Scoreboard Your Church Needs (And It’s Not Butts, Bucks, or Buildings)
Most pastors track butts, bucks, and buildings. Discover the church growth scoreboard that actually measures disciple-making and real Kingdom impact.