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 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...
by Jeff Hoglen | Mar 14, 2022 | Church Health, Church Planting, Church Revitalization
I once heard a joke about statistics. The person giving the stats said – “73.267% of all stats are made up on the spot.” That may not be the case but it is difficult to trust every statistic that comes through your RSS feed. Thom Rainer and the good...
by Dave Workman | Mar 3, 2022 | Church Health, Church Leadership, Discipleship
At the start of a new year, rather than thinking about resolutions and future thinking, I prefer to first mentally review the past year: What flourished, what struggled, what brought personal joy, and what were some soul challenges? For me, that makes...
by Travis Stephens | Feb 24, 2022 | Church Health, Small Church / Rural Church
The friendships within your church are incredibly important. They in large part keep people connected to the church. The better connected people are, the more often they show up, the more likely they serve, the more likely they give, and the more likely they’ll invite...
