by Steve Sjogren | Apr 11, 2022 | Church Health, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
If the church was a mission to the moon, and I was the commander of the mission, my call to Mission Central would be: “Oh God, we have a problem!” The problem is that when the vast majority of people think of the Church, or of a Christian, their thoughts...
by Ron Edmondson | Apr 4, 2022 | Church Health, Church Leadership
I’m not a huge fan of most policies and a majority of them, in my opinion, need someone to improve them. It could be because I’m not a very good rule follower, but I honestly don’t think many policies work as well as they were intended when created. Policies are...
by Dave Workman | Mar 31, 2022 | Church Health, Church Revitalization, Communication / Preaching
After a time of crazy growth, we had a number of people leave as a result of some challenging changes we had implemented. Primarily, it was around developing a discipleship model that shut down many of our affinity groups as well as introducing a membership process in...
by Bill Easum | Mar 24, 2022 | Discipleship, Outreach and Evangelism
Commitment to organized religion is now declining at the same time the public passionately pursues personal, spiritual journeys. How ironic that established/mainline denominations are shrinking during one of the most intensely spiritual periods in North American...
by Ron Edmondson | Mar 21, 2022 | Church Health, Church Revitalization, Outreach and Evangelism, Small Church / Rural Church
One of our worship leaders shared a great line in an email to me. He and his wife met a couple from our area at a marriage retreat recently. As they got to know the new couple over the weekend they found out the couple didn’t currently have a church. The worship...
