Big Worship Mistakes
I go to a lot of churches and see a lot of different worship services, both contemporary and traditional. I’m constantly amazed at how many of these services seldom consider the presence of non-believers in the audience. Let me give you some examples. I was in a church the other day that said it was […]
Antiques Roadshow in the Pulpit
I’ve been saying this for at least five years and now it appears I’ve been onto something. The day of the sermon as we know it is dead. Or at least, if you want to bother teaching and reaching the under-fifty crowd, it needs to be dead. “A study by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Carl Wieman […]
The One Thing to Do If Your Church Is Declining
If your church is not growing, there is one thing you must do to get it growing. You must ask yourself this question every time you are about to something or spend money – “If I do this today will it result in more people in worship tomorrow? If not, I better have a good […]
The Future is Coming True
I was just interviewed by a young man who was doing research on multi-site churches for his seminary degree. He was quite thorough and seemed to have covered the waterfront in his reading on the subject. What got my attention were two insights I was not aware of. The first insight was that I was the second […]
Why Do Churches Wait until It’s Almost Too Late?
One of the things I’ve noticed over my years of consulting is that most declining churches wait until it’s almost too late to try to stop their decline. They will watch their worship attendance decline some 50-60% over a ten-year period and do nothing about it. But here’s the kicker – they won’t do anything about it until the […]
Another Myth Buster – “We Are Becoming Two Churches”
Your response to my blog post “Looking for Myth Busters” has been good. In fact, I have received more personal email than responses on my blog. Here is one response by email that adds one more critical myth that we need to deal with: “WE’RE NOW TWO CHURCHES SINCE WE STARTED THAT #@%$@ CONTEMPORARY SERVICE!” […]