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You’re already seeing the trend: After an initial surge in online viewing numbers when the Coronavirus shut down church buildings, online viewing numbers are dropping. The spike was significant. Heading into Easter 2020, half of all churches reported online attendance that was greater than their in normal attendance would be. Now, that’s no longer the…

Why Are Your Online Attendance Numbers Suddenly Dropping? 5 Reasons

Former SeaWorld CEO, Joel Manby, returns to the podcast and opens his notebook and heart on leading from the C-Suite through numerous crises: Including his partnership with Amazon during the dot com crash of 2000, leading through The Great Recession, and leading through the Black Fish documentary crisis as CEO of SeaWorld. Joel also talks…

CNLP 341: Joel Manby with Crisis Lessons from Amazon, Saab, SeaWorld and The Great Recession

So all of a sudden you’re recording videos, messages and going live on social media like you never have before. While the coronavirus may have ramped up your online presence, the digital future was on its way anyway for church and business leaders. I’ve been podcasting and shooting video from home for years, and almost…

The Home Studio Gear Guide. Here’s All the Equipment You Need Even On A Tiny Budget

As the world slowly re-opens on the other side of COVID, a question for you today. Are churches behaving like malls in the age of Amazon, just hoping for people to shop again? The mall and retail industry, which, pre-COVID, already had its share of challenges and decline, is not in denial that whatever normal…

Are Churches Behaving Like Malls In the Age of Amazon, Just Hoping For People To Shop Again?

Leadership is a little like life. There’s a picture in your head of how things will go, and then there’s how they actually go. The same is true when it comes to church growth. As we’ve shared on my new Church Pulse Weekly podcast with Barna President David Kinnaman, about half of all churches are…

5 Strange Insights Into Church Growth You May Have Never Heard Before

Mike Todd is back for a second episode in a row with an update on what’s happened at Transformation Church during the global crisis. While they were already an online church before, online attendance has exploded to 10x what it was before COVID, and giving has soared. Mike takes you backstage to explain their online…

CNLP Bonus 22: Mike Todd Returns to Explain His Model for Online Church, Why Their Church Has Grown 10x During COVID, and How to Turn Viewers Into Engagers, Contributors, Disciples and Donors

In 2015, Mike Todd took over as a 20-something pastor of a church of 350. Five years later, he has a million followers on Instagram, his sermons are watched a quarter million times a week and Transformation Church just moved into a 4,500 seat arena at its new building, and is debt free after 7…

CNLP 336: Mike Todd on the Meteoric Rise of Transformation Church, Blowing Up on Social Media, and the Power of 51% Certainty in Decision Making

Sure…the world has changed almost unbelievably since mid-March 2020, but stop for a moment and think about how much you’ve changed. You’ve led through the biggest crisis in a generation, or perhaps a century. And as a result, you’ve innovated. You went from Meeting in-person to meeting online Leading your team in-person to leading your team remotely…

If the current crisis is a disruption, leaders who see the it as an interruption should prepare to be further disrupted

Mark Sayers is one of the most profound thinkers and cultural commentators today. In this interview, Mark explains how the current pandemic almost instantly deconstructed and threatened both consumer Christianity and secular salvation, he shares principles on how to lead through the COVID crisis, and offers some insight into what the new post-pandemic church and…

CNLP 334: Mark Sayers on Leading Through the COVID Crisis, the Deconstruction of Consumer Christianity and Secular Salvation, and What the New World Might Look Like

So all of a sudden you’re online like you’ve never been before. And now there’s a long road ahead. While no one knows exactly where all of this lands post-pandemic, the future looks more digital than ever. It’s almost certain that the future holds more remote teams and ministry, more people looking for spiritual solutions…

So all of a sudden you're online like you've never been before. How do you get your content noticed? Well, here are the 7 best ways to get it ignored.