From Visitor to Missionary: Your Missing Discipleship Strategy
Word Count: 339 – Est Read Time: ~90 Seconds What’s Up You can’t make disciples if you don’t have a plan – which is why most churches are filled with church members, not committed disciples of Jesus! So What Most churches have no clue how to move someone from “visitor” to “missionary.” There’s no discipleship […]
Making Mother’s Day Special
I saw a post on Facebook that reminded me of a very practical church growth principle. The image said, ’The best gift you can give your mother for Mother’s Day is to sit with her in church.” Behind only Christmas and Easter, Mother’s Day brings the third highest attendance each year. People who haven’t been […]
40 Ways to Increase Your Easter Attendance
40 days is a significant time period in the Bible. In the Old Testament, when God destroyed the earth with water, He caused it to rain 40 days and 40 nights. Moses was on Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights receiving the 10 Commandments. In the New Testament, Jesus was tempted for 40 […]
12 Days of Christmas Tools
“I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people” (Luke 2:10b NIV). Christmas is the good news of great joy for all people. Christmas should be a party — a birthday party for Jesus. It’s the reason we say, “Merry Christmas.” So how do we as church leaders keep Christ […]
Christmas Sunday 2022
Remembering back to when I was pastoring a growing church, I had to face a particularly issue in both 2005 and 2016. Those were years when December 25th fell on a Sunday. This year, 2022, Christmas day is also on a Sunday. So how should your church plan services as Christmas day is Sunday, knowing […]
A VR Reformation
I’ve got a birthday coming up and for years when my wife Debbie would ask me what I wanted as a gift my response was always the same. ”Nutin”. I did elaborate by saying, “I don’t want or need a thing.” And I really didn’t. When she asked me that question this year, I had […]