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- 1. What's Next for Thom Rainer Now That He's Retiring From LifeWay?
- In June 2017, Thom S. Rainer released a new research project on church health and effective evangelistic churches. The results were sobering. His study showed 65 percent of churches were either plateaued ...
- Created on 10 September 2018
- 2. 5 More Reasons People Abandon the Local Church for House Churches ...
- ... c encounter with Jesus are done with perfectly orchestrated worship sets and precisely ordered services. House churches offer an opportunity to ditch the set lists and eliminate the clocks in favor of ...
- Created on 04 September 2018
- 3. 5 Reasons People Leave Local Churches for House Churches ...
- ... e in the church who are spiritualizing their manipulation, control and rebellion by abandoning the local church, rejecting authority and church government and launching home churches without blessing ...
- Created on 04 September 2018
- 4. What Happens When Megachurch Pastors, Priests Betray Public Trust With Sexual Escapades
- Dr. Alveda King, beloved niece of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., pulls no punches in speaking the truth in love. Finishing breakfast in our home a while ago, my wife and I were privileged to receive prophetic ...
- Created on 20 August 2018
- 5. What Makes Someone Leave Their Church?
- ... aligned. By contrast, 39 percent of churchgoers who don't have evangelical beliefs say they are completely aligned, and about half (53 percent) are mostly aligned. Sixty percent of churchgoers at big c ...
- Created on 26 June 2018
- 6. What to Do When a New Believer Joins Your Church
- ... ready for God to bless you with more new life in Christ! Hal Seed is the founding and lead pastor of New Song Community Church in Oceanside, California. He mentors pastors who want to lead healthy, growing chu ...
- Created on 09 April 2018
- 7. Megachurch Pastor Helps Save 42,500 Children's Lives Because He Followed a Simple Call
- ... e of the largest and most dynamic churches in America. He is also a noted author, and his PowerPoint Ministries broadcasts are available in 92 countries and are heard daily in more than 740 cities. ...
- Created on 22 January 2018
- 8. 10 Key Trends Churches Should Heed in 2018 ...
- ... communities are no longer friendly to local churches; some have become adversarial. But in the waves of these seas of negativity, are mercy drops of hope and possibilities. Look at these 10 major trend ...
- Created on 12 December 2017
- 9. What Does an Unhealthy Church Look Like?
- ... we pull our cultural values into our grid for measuring church success. Size is not necessarily the best measurement for church health. Is it OK for churches to be small sometimes? Absolutely. But befor ...
- Created on 15 November 2017
- 10. After Charlottesville Riots, Why Aren't Our Churches More Diverse? ...
- ... ired because they encourage racial and ethnic diversity in their churches. Other forms of racism are more subtle, but no less toxic. There is no intentionality. Churches that are evangelistic have leader ...
- Created on 14 August 2017
- 11. Pastor, Stop Trying to Be Joel Osteen
- I met Joel Osteen many years ago when he asked me to direct a series of TV specials featuring his father, Pastor John Osteen. We became friends, and when his dad passed away and Joel became pastor of Lakewood ...
- Created on 17 July 2017
- 12. Serious Signals a Megachurch Is Having Minor Influence
- ... many friends in New York City, around the U.S. and in numerous nations on various continents who have powerful megachurches with great influence that do not fit the points in this article; however, I hav ...
- Created on 12 July 2017
- 13. The Mentality That May Be Killing Your Church
- ... or us?" is the prevailing principle of decision-making for too many churches. Denominational leaders and professional fundraisers know that to be successful in their promotions, they have to convince chu ...
- Created on 10 February 2017
- 14. 15 Reasons Churches Are Less Evangelistic Today ...
- By almost any metric, the churches in our nation are much less evangelistic today than they were in the recent past. In my own denomination, we are reaching non-Christians only half as effectively as we ...
- Created on 09 February 2017
- 15. A Three-Tiered Approach to Christian Worldview Preaching
- As faithful preachers, our proclamation must be built around the objective truths of the gospel and our experiences of finding fulfillment in the Christian worldview and disappointment in secular worldviews. ...
- Created on 01 February 2017
- 16. 6 Areas Where Ministry and the Generations Collide
- I was born in 1980, so I'm on the cusp of Generation X and the millennials. On any given Sunday, our congregation includes infants to people in their 90s. It is true that some churches are made up predominantl ...
- Created on 30 January 2017
- 17. 6 Current Trends in Land Purchases by Churches ...
- So much change. Such rapid changes. I have noted on numerous occasions the incredible pace of change impacting churches. Another change has become increasingly more evident: how and when churches make ...
- Created on 27 January 2017
- 18. Ways to Promote Online Content to Your Church Without Looking Preachy
- I sometimes see pastors concerned about how it will look if they promote a certain article or blog post on social media. This is especially true if the article instructs a church on how to treat the pastor ...
- Created on 18 January 2017
- 19. 8 Reasons Some Full-Time Pastors and Staff Should Go Bi-Vocational
- Some of you reading this post may need to get a new job. At least you may need to get an additional job. Without a doubt, many churches will always need full-time vocational pastors and church staff. I ...
- Created on 18 January 2017
- 20. 3 Ways Your Church Can Make Martin Luther King's Dream a Reality
- ... sify their workforce. However, if King were alive today, he might be shocked that within many of our churches, Sunday morning at 11:00 p.m. is still "the most segregated hour of Christian America." As ...
- Created on 12 January 2017
