Stop Inviting People to Church… and Grow Your Church Anyway
Recently, I was working with a church that desperately wants to grow… well, the pastor wants it to grow. He asked his core leaders about their inviting experiences and they all said shades of the same thing: “I’ve invited all my friends to church and they’re not interested.” Well, duh!! Unless you happen to be […]
A Leader People Want to Follow
What kind of a leader are you? There are several hundred books (at least!) that will help you discover that answer, but in my experience, there are really only three kinds of leaders. (1) Leaders with a position who don’t actually lead. Sorry folks, but I put the lassie faire style of leadership in this […]
Butts and Bucks
For years, I’ve heard progressive church leaders decry the emphasis on numbers, especially average worship attendance and member giving. Like virtually every church consultation firm, we get accused and badmouthed for our continued insistence that the churches we work with provide us with their numbers for the previous ten years. Numbers like: Average worship attendance […]
Gimme that Old Time Religion
I just finished listening to a commercial for songs by Allan Jackson, songs like: What a Friend We Have in Jesus Leaning On the Everlasting Arms Amazing Grace I Love to Tell the Story This is My Story Love Lifted Me He Lives! Blessed Assurance When We All Get to Heaven Turn Your Eyes Upon […]
Reader Question
Sometimes we get questions from our Contact Us page. When we do, we try to answer the query. Sometimes, the question is broad enough that it warrants a blog post of its own. Such is the case with this query … “I read your target audience post and it made sense to me. Given our […]
War Ship Small Groups
I recently had a student who designed a new small group system for her church and called them War Ship Small Groups. And she was uniformly eaten by a couple of students for using battle language … I guess because that kind of language is pointedly missing from the Bible (I don’t know which Bible’s […]