Book review: The Unstuck Church
Tony Morgan’s book, The Unstuck Church: Equipping Churches to Experience Sustained Health is a tremendous tool for ministry leaders.
Flip the script from consumerism to discipleship
How can we plant so many seeds of consumerism and expect the fruits of discipleship?
When to break the rules
Do unnecessary rules keep you from leading well?
Setting your course for a new season
Here are two things that need to be in place to set a course for a new season.
Casting a long shadow
Although Christian businessman Ed McAteer died in 2004, his name resurfaced last week in connection with the relocation of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Writing for Baptist News Global, former journalist Mark Wingfield said McAteer helped plant important seeds from the 1970s through ‘90s. Many evangelicals have never heard of McAteer. Yet, the “reality is that Donald Trump would not be president today, the Moral Majority would not have existed, and the U.S. Embassy would not be in Jerusalem today,” wrote Wingfield, now associate pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas. McAteer was a longtime member of [...]
Refusing to limit growth
Though we are often oblivious when we become “stuck” in our personal growth, the evidence is compelling.
Have you settled?
Are there areas where you have settled? How does it impact growth? Charlotte Gambill, Pastor of Life Church UK, alongside her husband Steve, encourages leaders to examine what they're building.
Going against the grain
Sometimes it pays to be a contrarian. Despite the conventional wisdom that radio is on the way out, the president of a Southern California company that provides Christian radio programming for stations nationwide says business is better than ever. Roger Kemp, 61, is the president of Roger Kemp and Company. He founded it in 2004 after stints as vice president of vice president of broadcasting at Chuck Swindoll’s Insight for Living, and vice president of national programming for Salem Communications. “For the (40) years I’ve been in this career, every year they’re telling me it’s dying, but I’ve never been [...]
Being honest with yourself about change
Do you embrace reality or instead avoid those transitions that get you down?
Biblical values that create raving fans
Every (smart) business wants to deliver “wow” experiences that not only satisfy customers and employees, but also turn them into raving fans.
8 questions to help your church focus its outreach
Here are eight questions a leadership team can ask to discover their target group.
Is your leadership more than words?
Great leaders have the courage to act!
3 advantages of choosing a target group
In my experience of helping churches with strategic-planning tasks, the most controversial part of the process is choosing a target or focus group.
The disciplines of disruption
Many great CEOs are also great disruptors. However, Jesus was the greatest disruptor of all time. Christian executives and business leaders would do well to follow the disruptive disciplines of the leader Jesus.
Facing the invisible dragons of change
Are you facing change? Have you labeled something or someone a “dragon," a threat to your comfort zone, that God may have brought for your good, your growth or His glory?
Where to push for church revitalization
When leaders understand the three components of church culture and push in the right places their success rate improves—dramatically.
Reasons to make waves when introducing change
Though leaders are responsible for maintaining peace, it is also their job to occasionally be the architects of plans that disrupt status quo and complacency.
A new opportunity for senior leadership
If you're a senior pastor who is uncertain about your future, consider your impact through interim ministry.
Are you ready for change?
What do our methods look like and what are we reproducing? Is there diversity? Variety? Unity?
The homogenous church is declining and dying
When you are in your worship services next Sunday, look at the people around you. Do they all look like you?
