It’s finally happening. A large percentage of highly effective pastors are dropping pastoral care from their agenda. Instead they are focusing on being the spiritual leader who sets the culture of the congregation and mentors the core leaders.
Does this mean that pastoral care doesn’t happen? Certainly not. But it does mean the traditional way […]
The Key to Understanding Today’s World and the Role of the Church
Two metaphors will guide us – The National Park and The Jungle. Everyone born before 1980 was born in the National Park world. Everyone born after that was born into The Jungle. Here are the differences:
The National Park
• Is neatly laid out
• Predictable […]
I’m constantly asked what it takes to raise up more leaders or, to put it biblically, to make more mature disciples. And that’s good because leadership and discipleship multiplication are some of the most important ministries church leaders can undertake. So I’m going to brush stroke the basics of a leadership culture. If you want […]
This post started off as a response to a comment left by Frank in the Churches That Don’t Want To Grow post. He attends a fifty year old church in a fifty year old neighborhood that’s suffering from decline. He wanted to know a bit more about visitor follow up and so on.
So, let […]
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 things are that leaders would be ready to hear what’s working. But by and large, that’s not the case. And the […]
The Internet has given Christian churches and ministries a brand new opportunity to communicate the gospel in a new, worldwide society. Distance in time and physical space is not a major obstacle anymore. Communication happens via e-mail, Web pages on the Net with text or graphics with hyperlinks, animation, audio and video. Internet Relay […]
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 […]
The term “church growth” means all sorts of things to different people. Some see no problem whatsoever. Others find it to be controversial.
The question that defines it for me is? Do your pews or seats look like this image on a Sunday morning?
Somewhere between 15 and 20% of Americans will worship as Christians this […]
A book every pastor with a staff, or one who is going to have a staff, should read is Fairness Is Overrated, by Tim Stevens. Over the past two years I’ve waded through dozens of books, and only a handful have pushed my buttons as much as this one. This book is cool to the […]
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