by Jeff Hoglen | Oct 11, 2018 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Servant Evangelism
“While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.” – Mark 2:15 Why is it that Jesus spent time with tax collectors and sinners, but the majority of believers...
by Bill Easum | Oct 8, 2018 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Worship
Over the years I’ve seen pastors make the same mistakes over and over. Every time I see these mistakes I can almost bet their church is declining. So I thought I would share with you the six most common mistakes I see pastors doing and what to do about it. Mistake...
by Hugh Halter | Sep 12, 2018 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
I finally decided to try to put together a few thoughts regarding “how to de-consumerize your church.” Regardless of whether you are a new church plant or an existing church trying to reform and reposition your congregation to thrive during tough ministry and economic...
by Mark Batterson | Aug 14, 2018 | Church Leadership, Coaching
I recently read an interesting book by Garry Kasparov titled How Life Imitates Chess. Kasparov won his first world-championship chess match in 1985 and he dominated the chess world for several decades. In the book he shares some of the lessons he learned. Here is one...
by Dave Alford | Jul 16, 2018 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
Effective leadership is critical to church planting. A church, or any organization for that matter, can only go as far as its leader can take it. In the past, I’ve written in this space about the importance of character when it comes to effective leadership. For sure,...