How Should Your Church Keep Score?
Each church is different, but metrics matter. The church has always kept numbers. Jesus fed 5,000 people. Jesus trained the 12. He sent out 72,… Read More »How Should Your Church Keep Score?
Each church is different, but metrics matter. The church has always kept numbers. Jesus fed 5,000 people. Jesus trained the 12. He sent out 72,… Read More »How Should Your Church Keep Score?
6 Leaders Worth Checking Out There are plenty of pastors who’ve got it going on. We should never copy what someone is doing like it’s… Read More »6 Leaders Worth Checking Out
1.) Thou shall use your real name and not haveth a middle name like “Billy$LadY” 2.) Thou shalt not “share, re-tweet, or repost” more than 2… Read More »10 More Digital Commandments
Great front-line leaders discern the correct communication channels each person uses. Everyone should discern and document each person’s preferences as they seek to build their… Read More »9 Communication Channels You Need to Use
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” ~Shakespeare. “back to life, back to reality” ~Soul II Soul a 90’s dance sensation The Summer Slump… Read More »Surviving the Summer Slump -Pt 4: 6 Ways to Lead When People Leave in the Summer
Be Digitally Holy Everything that is hidden will become clear, and every secret thing will be made known~ Luke 8:17 NCV I don’t mean to… Read More »Be Ye Digitally Holy
When you think of change—implementing something new, shifting something existing or removing something old—what do you feel? Do you get excited? Are you hesitant or scared? Here are a few ways to make change more effective in your community.
Surely, between prayers, devotions and encouraging sticky notes, the church is the best place to not have conflict at all! But then you actually get that job in the church, and your first conflict slaps you out of your lovely heaven-on-earth sentiment of ministry.
It can be daunting to open up your life and your ministry to the next generation. Just when you think you’ve figured out how to run a small group or women’s ministry or even your own meeting, this lively bunch shows up, with energy and enthusiasm, zany ideas and young skin. At times they seem like peers, other times they seem like preschoolers. Pundits say they are entitled and adolescent. Yet regardless of how you feel about the next generation, they are the church of tomorrow and they are the church of today. They are our next pastors, ministry leaders, elders, writers and communicators. Working with them is a biblical mandate, as we are called to commend the works of God to the next generation (Psalm 71:8).