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 […]
“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 in […]
Stuck at a 15% return rate for first-time guests? Let’s turn that around.
Meet Pastor Doug. He implemented a guest engagement plan and saw his guest return rate skyrocket from 15% to 75%. Real change, real results. Time to take action, folks. Success in church growth isn’t accidental; it’s the result of intentional actions and […]
“But that’s not fair!”
These are words I expect to hear from my young grandchildren … not words I expect to hear from adults, let alone mature Christians. But I hear them nonetheless.
“We can’t appoint Frank to an elder’s position … he doesn’t participate in any adult faith formation groups.”
“But that’s not fair …”
“We have […]
I don’t know about you but I’m tired of all the crazy book titles that attach adjectives to the word “church”. I get dozens of review copies every year and lately it dawned on me that many of them the last couple of years have had “church” in the title. So I did a search […]
The following is from a good friend of EBA. It is a telling story of why pastors should spend as much time as they can out of the office and in the public.
Bill Easum
Alright, so I’m wandering around town.
I bump into my friend who’s recently out of jail from a DWI charge. He
can’t get […]
I live in Missouri, but I’m a Seattle-ite at heart. One of the big cultural differences between the two is their attitude toward recycling. I’m used to looking at every piece of trash and doing the gymnastics to see if there’s a new use for it. Failing that, I move on to deciding which […]
I received a question from a recent seminar participant that was buried in one of the comments. I started to answer it there, but when I finished I realized it was way too long to be just a comment … so I repost it here.
The question was “So, how does one confront the “Fog […]
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 frustrations as a consultant, he wrote me an email that contains the following questions (reprinted here with his express permission).
“I was […]
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