by Ed Stetzer | Jul 30, 2021 | Church Health, Discipleship
Most of us know how essential volunteers are to making sure our churches are as effective as they need to be. Churches need to develop an ethos of valuing volunteers, but in order for churches to thrive, they would do best to raise up volunteers who are leaders and...
by Steve Sjogren | Jul 22, 2021 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Church Revitalization
In Acts 2, when Peter was inspired to preach mightily by the power of the Holy Spirit, he was evidencing an amazing amount of “faith casting.” In that case, the place where they were meeting was affected by the presence of God in response to what the...
by Ron Edmondson | Jul 20, 2021 | Church Health, Church Revitalization, Small Church / Rural Church
Change has changed. Have you noticed? Of course, you have. It’s all around us. You might not have thought about it, but you’ve certainly experienced the result of the way change has changed. I first wrote these thoughts 9 years ago, and they are truer today. Change is...
by Dave Workman | Jul 15, 2021 | Church Leadership, Church Revitalization, Small Church / Rural Church
Sociologists have noted the unprecedented “acceleration of change” happening in our world. Information is instantaneous. People change locations more, change work more, change relationships more in our time than any other. And let’s be honest: a pandemic has...
by Brian Jones | Jul 13, 2021 | Church Leadership, Church Revitalization
I believe churches only grow when their Senior Pastors have a crystal clear vision of where God wants to take their church, and that vision is broadly shared and owned. Here is a three-year snapshot of a twenty-year plan we believe God has set before us as a church....
