I have the good fortune to be working with a mainline pastor who gets it and is working hard on the transformation process at his church. After he read my blog on my

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Over the past several weeks I've been hither and yon across the country training church leaders in evangelism and church transformation. One would think with the way

I received so many responses to my last post on the Top Five Reasons Churches Don't Grow that I could probably blog a new post on any one of the comments and have

Once upon a time, I used to teach. It was a one room schoolhouse with up to twelve kids ages preschool through seniors in high school. I taught the ABCs, 123s, algebra, trig,

Another one bites the dust. If I had a dollar for every pastor who started the transformation process and ended up leaving the church and/or ministry, I could have retired long ago. But