Jim was right out of seminary and into his third year as pastor of his first church. He had worked hard all three years, but the church didn’t grow. In fact, if anything, it was smaller than when he arrived. His frustration level was high.
I ran into Jim at a seminar I was doing […]
Jim was right out of seminary and into his third year as pastor of his first church. He had worked hard all three years, but the church didn’t grow. In fact, if anything, it was smaller than when he arrived. His frustration level was high.
I ran into Jim at a seminar I was doing […]
Pastors live in the midst of many people. But the secret is they are often lonely and depressed. Pastors suffer from a lack of friends.
Be honest, if you are a pastor, are you lonely? If you go to church, do you think your pastor may be lonely?
Not only is this an issue for the […]
As a pastor, I wasn’t taught or mentored in how to be a leader. So I have had to dig deep inside to prayerfully find and develop an inner leader or suffer the consequences.
Perhaps you have been on that same journey. You would understandably assume that being a pastor is about being pastoral. But […]
The threat with church hospitality at present is that it can become just another program to get people to church. Hospitality had better be grounded in a true sense of loving God’s people.
People often refrain from church these days because of what they determine to be hypocrisy. You could say that that means there […]
Lousy hospitality seems rampant at churches. We hate it when we see it in other churches, but we don’t seem to be able to address it in our own.
We live in a time when even churches get rated on the internet. Of course, word of mouth always has been and always will be the […]
One of top questions we’ve heard during the Only Four Things Grow Churches tour has to do with the allocation of the pastor’s time. When we suggest that a pastor leading a church of under 450 needs to spend between 70 – 80 percent of their time networking with the unchurched, the grumbling becomes […]
Here’s a mind bender for you. Below is a simple scenario. Put your church consultant hat on and contemplate – what would you do?
Four mornings each week, he sat in his office doing Facebook updates, responding to the occasional email, and tending to the church’s website. On Wednesdays he planned worship and worked on the bulletin. […]
Many churches I work with suffer from low self-esteem and a sense of hopelessness. There are many reasons for this malaise, a common one being that the congregation has come to believe their circumstances are insurmountable (they’re not, but that’s a post for another time).
I’m working on a recommendation report from a consultation with a church […]
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