Last weekend, about 15% of Americans were a part of Christian worship. If you are a Christian leader, that should be enough to get you motivated.
Many church leaders weren’t trained for what ministry looks like today. The bottom line: Could you use more visitors in your church? If so, let’s get started.
Some years back, […]
The issue of church multiplication is either a mystery or an unknown to most mainline pastors and denominational leaders. Most of them are simply trying to survive, so the gap between survival and multiplication is wider than the Grand Canyon.
But what would have to happen to make multiplication possible for mainline churches?
There would […]
The issue of church multiplication is either a mystery or an unknown to most mainline pastors and denominational leaders. Most of them are simply trying to survive, so the gap between survival and multiplication is wider than the Grand Canyon.
But what would have to happen to make multiplication possible for mainline churches?
There would […]
In June I attended a workshop on “Managing Creativity” sponsored by Leadership Network and the Disney Institute in Orlando. Although I didn’t get to see much of Disney during the day and half I attended the workshop, I was introduced to enough of it to have some interesting thoughts. I first shared my initial […]
by Bill Tenny-Brittian
In my book High-Voltage Spirituality I introduce nine broad categories of Spiritual Habits: Projection/Reflection, Prayer, Study, Worship, Giving-Up, Taking-On, Accountability, Retreating, and Faith Sharing. With spring encroaching upon us, it seemed to me to be a great time to try the Tenth Habit: The Spiritual Habit of Pilgrimage.
Pilgrimages were popular spiritual practices up through […]
I began consulting with churches part time in 1987. I’ve been a full time consultant to churches since 1990. My consulting firm, 21st Century Strategies, Inc. has been around for twenty-two years. So I’ve had time to see a lot of changes in church consulting over the years- some good and some not so […]
I forget who first said it but “culture eats strategy every time.” Church culture is the intersection of vision, values, narrative, leaders, and practices that characterize and guide an organization as shown in the graphic.
The reason any kind of major change is so difficult and takes so long is because of culture. A church’s […]
We received a note today on our advanced leadership forum that asked what place to begin talking with churches about stewardship. My response was this: stewardship of money comes from the heart. That’s where you begin.
Then a list of things I have believed for a long time surfaced in my pea brain. I thought I would […]
I just finished reading a draft to endorse George Barna’s new book Rechurching the Unchurched. Not the best title, but one that aptly describes the book. It has some very interesting facts drawn from his two years of research with the unchurched. I thought I would share a few of the ones I found […]
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