by Dave Workman | Apr 21, 2022 | Church Health, Church Leadership, Church Revitalization
Over the years that we’ve worked with churches, it’s been our observation that of the four critical elements of healthy, effective churches: Integrity (systems, processes, organizational wholeness) Passion (communal commitment to the mission) Servanthood (outward...
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...
by Bill Tenny-Brittian | Mar 10, 2022 | Church Health, Church Revitalization, Outreach and Evangelism, Uncategorized
Ray is twenty-seven years old and works in IT at the local university. He’s been married for three years and he and Jessica just had a baby girl a couple of months ago. Life is pretty good for Ray and Jessica. They own their home – well, the bank owns it, but they...
by Ron Edmondson | Feb 28, 2022 | Church Health, Church Leadership
There are some lessons we only learn the hard way. One of them for me has been ways I help creative people on our teams flourish. I used to think when leading creatives, the key was to free them to create. Therefore, I gave huge blank slates, allowed people to dream,...