Assuming you have a mission, vision, and values statement, or core values, or purpose statement, begin asking a series of questions:”What committees do we have that are not doing anything that helps these statements?” Eliminate them. Next, “What committees during the past year did not do anything?” Eliminate them. Then, “What committees did not […]
Learning Occurs in Community
The first is the pioneering work of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire. Working among the poorest of the poor in Brazil, Freire developed the practice and theory of Critical Education. He demonstrated that people who had never learned to read could quickly develop skills of literacy and complex reasoning if those skills […]
Over the next few days, I will be blogging on the essentials to breaking the following worship barriers – 200, 500, 1000, and 1500 people in worship. Today I will begin by listing the essentials for breaking 200.
Breaking the 200 in Worship Barrier.
A full-time worship leader who functions also as a pastor to those […]
We were talking about preaching to your target audience – your Outreach Avatar – and one of my preaching students shared that one of his elders was complaining about the sermon du jour on his way out on a Sunday morning. “Why do you preach about things that don’t relate to us?”
The pastor explained […]
As Americans transition to a non-religious population, churches have been closing rapidly across the US. In 2019, about 4,500 Protestant churches closed, with those still standing typically having only 85% of the pre-pandemic attendance numbers. This number has worsened since COVID-19 struck in 2020, with research by the Survey Center on American Life and the University […]
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Recently a pastor asked me for a copy of my church’s building use policy. At first I did not understand the question. Then I got it. Trouble is that my church has never found a need for an elaborate written policy when it comes to various groups using our facilities.
Basically, you pay us to […]
Help for Dying Churches
by Jeff Patton
What is a dying church? Have you seen one lately? Are you in one? Would you know if you were? Dying congregations have these characteristics:
They all say “We are friendly, debt free, and full of great people.”
They all have under 50 in worship, and use their money to survive.
They […]
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