Look to the Margins
...only branch of the church that has any significant growth at all! Yet the leadership regularly overlooks them as models of growth and seldom recognizes or promotes these ethnic leaders....
GalleryNumbers Count
I had a conversation recently with a small group of mainline pastors and the conversation naturally turned to church transformation and church growth. When I asked how they measured whether...
The Growth Debate
...conversion growth … or how many of that 83 percent you’re actually reaching. Biological growth is important, but as church leaders we don’t have much control over this one. Small...
GalleryThree Things I’ve Learned
I was speaking with a pastor in Iowa the other day and shared that I’d just completed forty years in parish ministry. He offered some generous congratulatory sentiments and thanked me for my service. But then he paused and asked me a really great question: “What has God been showing you during that time?”
I […]
The Power of Small
...able to sustain that growth. This can be the case with regard to small groups and the growth of the church. As we move from church start up, to growth,...
Suicidal
...normal that when we live in a healthy lifestyle with the life of the local church growth will occur. When growth doesn’t occur something is amiss at some point in...
The Path to Becoming a Successful Church Consultant
...(and even those with DMins have little success in the church growth area). Unfortunately, there is little correlation between book knowledge and successful leadership in church planting or church growth....
GalleryThoughts on Innovation
...sellers. But we had a fight over the title. I wanted The Ever Widening Circle because the book wasn’t about church growth and they wanted The Church Growth Handbook. Of...
GalleryTop Five Reasons Why Churches Don’t Grow
...post is called the top FIVE reasons churches don’t grow, but I have to throw in the one stopper for church growth, no matter what else is happening. Indeed, you...