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Our Top Blog Posts in 2024 (and what that says about you)
One way we measure our effectiveness is through the engagement we get with the blog posts we send you. The following are the blog posts that caught your attention—and why we think they did. #1 Arrested Spiritual Development This was the top opened blog post of the...
5 Questions to Ask in December to Start the New Year Strong
There’s a lot of pressure in January. It is supposed to be a time for new beginnings but frequently January is a recovery time without a clear focus --- and we fail to get traction to move forward. One of the best ways to start the new year strong is to start in...
Facilitating Faith
How do you know when someone in your congregation is struggling with their faith? What signals you that someone is ready to take a leap of faith? Often the answer is when they tell you. The trouble is people often wait to share those things until it is critical and...
Renewing Church Staff Energy
You ask for feedback at a staff meeting and get crickets. People are doing their job...but no more. There is a general lack of "team" amongst the staff. You've tried team building exercises and retreats, adjusting your goals, even bringing in a consultant to help...
What no longer works—and what does
You are already living in the post-Christian era in the United States. It seems like it happened fast but you've likely been feeling the effects for a while. You know the love and peace of being reconciled to God through Jesus Christ but when you share what you know...
The new era of ministry cooperation
Have you ever considered how often we have come to view churches as like sports teams? Not in the cooperation sense but the competitive sense. We have “our” team that we root for. We identify with their brand, wear their colors, and root for them to win against the...
What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus?
How do you define discipleship? While the script is pretty standard from a church marketing perspective, the actions associated with being a follower of Jesus can vary from church attendance to political association and everywhere in between. Growing disciples...
Financial stability and the future of the church
Here are the top two questions church leaders are asking: The first is how to get increased financial stability in their church; it just doesn’t seem to functioning as smoothly financially as it used to. The second is about what the church of the future will look...
Before you purchase that church system…
You've got vision and direction but why reinvent the wheel when there are so many resources available? That packaged sermon series or campaign with media kit is looking pretty good. You hear people are excited about that discipleship curriculum/pathway... they are...
Connecting Word and Deed
Christians agree there is a disconnect between the instruction scripture offers and how God's people are behaving. The tricky part is that when it comes to connecting word and deed everyone thinks they are doing it right. I recently witnessed someone bring a prophetic...
Arrested Spiritual Development
Those who you might consider mature Christians may actually be a hindrance to the mission of the church. Like the person who has been at the same church for decades and is gatekeeping its traditions. Or that group of friends who have been in a “closed” bible study for...
Investing in disciplemakers
How do you get people in the church to be disciplemakers instead of Christian consumers? That’s a great question, and if you’re in pastoral ministry, you’ve probably been asking it in one way or another. You don’t want people in your congregation to be consumers of...