How Do You Measure Success for Your Church?
Welcome to 2013. How are you going to measure the success of your church this year, and every other year, for that matter? Worship attendance, finances, Sunday school and/or small group attendance, the number of baptisms, the number of new leaders raised up? What if I told you that even though these are all important, none […]
Every Real Church Is Missional
In our new book, Effective Staffing for Vital Churches, we write that all churches are missional or they aren’t a church.  Pastor and author Michael Slaughter fell in love with the book at that point. Here is a brief excerpt from the book. We believe every church is missional or it isn’t a church! But […]
Why I Prefer Antioch over the Jerusalem Church
I believe the primary mission of the local church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ. Â If I believe that, then everything my church does should be pointed toward that goal. Â If I believe that, then I must also believe that making disciples doesn’t begin inside the church, it begins out in the community with […]
Too Busy to Grow Your Church
I just returned from a training event for a church that’s dwindled down to less than fifty in worship and has less than a dozen committed leaders. They were pretty much in the desperate mode, which is never a good place to be. When they turned to 21st Century Strategies to help them find a way […]