As Easter weekend approaches, your church is getting ready to make a great first impression on guests who may never have stepped foot on your property. In addition to praying for your church members to invite others and having well prepared music and a powerful message to deliver, there are some other things make […]
Towns, Elmer, C. Peter Wagner & Thom S. Rainer
The Everychurch Guide to Growth
(Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1998), 205 pages, paperback, $12.99. Obtain from Broadman & Holman Publishers, Nashville, TN.
A more than excellent book describing the “How To’s” of moving beyond the traditional worship barriers of 200, 400, and 1,000. Although the language […]
The world I grew up in taught that there is one way to do everything and one size fits all. That’s the heart of the industrial world of modernity.
However, just the opposite is true today. You know that if you own most any kind of software or cell phone. Almost everything today is undergoing […]
The world I grew up in taught there is one way to do everything and one size fits all. That’s the heart of the industrial world of modernity. However, just the opposite is true today. You know that if you own most any kind of software or cell phone. Almost everything today is undergoing decentralization. […]
You may have noticed there’s a recession … or at least some sort of a downturn in the economy. The price of gas is up. The price of utilities is up, and they say it’s going to get worse. The price of food is up. And with all of that, giving isn’t all that […]
It seems that the leading cause of flagging small group ministries is the consistent lack of available small group leaders. Depending on the size of the church, we always recommend starting a new small group (or Sunday school class) between semi-annually and monthly. These new groups are necessary to accommodate new people who would […]
From Paul Franklyn, Electronic Editor at Abindon Press
I usually don’t contribute to the list, for I am an editor in publishing and not a congregational leader, but I touched this topic today at an Easter Monday worship, here at the office.
On absolute truth, take a look at the works of CS Lewis. In particular, […]
I was reading an article about Alexander the Great whose troops after many victorious battles looked like they were about to be defeated. His soldiers had taken so much plunder from their previous campaigns that they had become weighted down and were losing their effectiveness in combat.
Alexander commanded that all the spoils of war […]
By Linda Stanley
Recently, Leadership Network sponsored a briefing at Central Christian Church in Henderson, Nevada that included presentations from local churches that have high capacity church multiplication centers. These churches are participants in a five-year pilot project that was designed as a strategic partnership between each of them and Leadership Network. The project began […]
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