Church Growth
Is Your Church Becoming Irrelevant? (Stop Doing These 5 Things)
Of all the organizations that have been hit hard by the pandemic, the church stands out as being particularly devastated. The longer this goes, though, the more the struggle appears self-inflicted. In the early days of COVID, pastors showed incredibly…
5 Signs You’re Doing Online Ministry Right
Like most churches and organizations today, you’re online. And you’re hoping your online presence helps you further your mission. Sure, in-person church is here to stay, but in-person church is changing (see below). For most leaders, online church is something…
Anger Isn’t Keeping Them Home; It’s Indifference (Why Church Attendance Keeps Dropping)
As you know, it’s an almost universal phenomenon. In-person church attendance for most churches has dropped significantly over the last forty years. The question is, why? The answer has puzzled me for a while now. It got even harder to…
The New Metrics: 9 Church Statistics That Pastors Should Start Tracking
As you know, in the last few years, all the metrics for church growth and health church leaders used to track got blown to bits. And even now that churches are open again, what pastors used to measure just doesn’t…
Why Social Media Won’t Grow Your Church The Way You Hoped (Building On Digital Volcanoes)
There’s a tension you’re probably feeling as a church leader when it comes to social media. No matter how many new followers you gain, it feels almost impossible to gain traction in your online church ministry. Which is weird. You’d…
5 Faulty Assumptions About The Future Church
As you know, it’s been a tough time to lead in the church over the last few years. What makes it even harder, though, is if you’re leading with a set of false assumptions about the future. False assumptions are…
Six Ways Your Church Can Use Texting to Engage More People
This post on churches and texting is written by Laura Pechenik, Demand Generation Marketing Manager at Gloo. As much as email has been a staple of communication for decades, texting is now emerging as one of the best ways for…
Three Counterintuitive Ways to Reach the Unchurched in Today’s Culture
This post is written by Mark Clark, author of The Problem of Jesus, founding pastor of Village Church and co-creator of The Art of Reaching course with Carey Nieuwhof. It is no secret that the world has experienced a shift over…
Break the Slump: How To Leverage Your 2021 Christmas Services To Reach More People
Like many church leaders, you’ve probably been working twice as hard and seeing half the results you’d wanted. That’s a recipe for disappointment, not to mention fatigue. When you’re discouraged as a leader, it can be easy to miss the…
Why They’re Not Coming Back To Church (And What To Do With Who’s Left)
You probably remember the predictions back in the Spring of 2020: As soon as churches reopened for in-person worship service again, people would flood back into church, high-fiving people, and embracing friends they hadn’t seen in weeks or months. Then…
Four Different Ways to Measure Success: Metrics for a New Era of Church
This post on church metrics is written by Jeff Lockyer, the Lead Pastor of Southridge Community Church, a multi-site, missional church in the Niagara Region of Ontario Canada. A former national team long-distance runner, Jeff also chairs the Board of…
4 Steps to Amplify Community Engagement
This post on community engagement is written by Chris Trethewey, a North Point Strategic Partner and Lead Pastor of TCC, a multisite church impacting communities across Pennsylvania. Chris and his wife, Kim have two daughters and Lola, their golden retriever.…