I saw a post on Facebook this week that reminded me of a very practical church growth principle. The image said, āThe best gift you can give your Mother for Motherās Day is to sit with her in church.” Behind only Christmas and Easter, Motherās Day brings the third highest attendance each year. People […]
I’m a big fan of the therapeutic model … if you need therapy. But it’s a rare church that needs therapy … and over the years we’ve found that the therapeutic model is seriously hurting a lot of churches.
Let me explain.
In case you’re not familiar with the therapeutic model, it’s the practice generally used […]
One of the little-known facts about me is that once upon a time in the Air Force I was in munitions’ maintenance and transportation ā in other words, I played with bombs. I was trained to work with conventional and non-conventional munitions (bombs, bullets, rockets, and missiles) and I had a pretty good understanding […]
For years, I’ve heard progressive church leaders decry the emphasis on numbers, especially average worship attendance and member giving. Like virtually every church consultation firm, we get accused and badmouthed for our continued insistence that the churches we work with provide us with their numbers for the previous ten years.
Numbers like:
Average worship attendancePer […]
The fifth core spiritual habit shifts the focus from ourselves and the church, and puts it where it ultimately belongs ā on others.
Jesusā last commandment was to make disciples and to be a witness to what weāve experienced in Jesus Christ (as opposed to what weāve experienced in the church). In general, the church […]
I think we would all agree that the world has gone mad. We may not agree on whatās causing this madness or what to do about it, but if you follow the news itās impossible to get around this fact ā the world has gone mad. From politics to the national debt, to the […]
I saw a post on Facebook that reminded me of a very practical church growth principle. The image said, āThe best gift you can give your mother for Motherās Day is to sit with her in church.” Behind only Christmas and Easter, Motherās Day brings the third highest attendance each year. People who havenāt […]
The New Testament model of church growth had little to do with converting individuals or assimilating members. It was all about reaching micro-cultures for Christ. A micro-culture is a definable, describable demographic or lifestyle segment. The apostles targeted Ephesus, Corinth, Philippi,Ā and other cities ā¦ and then different neighborhoods, economic and professional groups, and so […]
I saw a post on Facebook this week that reminded me of a very practical church growth principle. The image said, āThe best gift you can give your Mother for Motherās Day is to sit with her in church.ā
Behind only Christmas and Easter, Motherās Day is the third highest church attendance day each year. […]
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