Organizational and Cultural Trends
5 Signs Your Church Has Outgrown You Doing Everything Yourself
This post is written by Lisa Zeeveld, CFO at BELAY. With over 23 years of experience in financial management, strategic partnerships, talent management, and technology integration, Lisa is a dedicated executive leader committed to driving organizational growth and maximizing profitability. There’s…
Does AI Expand Your Green Zone? Nope. But Your Life Might Get Better Anyway.
Here’s an opportunity with AI almost nobody’s talking about. AI is about to free up your Red Zone and Yellow Zone considerably. The inbox triage. The first draft (not for your sermons, but for so many other things). The research…
5 Conversations Your Team Needs to Have about AI in the Church
This post is in partnership with Subsplash, written by Lyndsi Bigbee, Marketing Copywriter. Subsplash is one platform that does it all—build your church community with the only platform made for discipleship. Technology shifts can feel completely exhausting when you’re already…
A Moment Bigger than the Game – What Christians Shouldn’t Miss this Summer
This is a guest post by Andy Searles, Pastor of Church Together just outside Orlando, a chaplain for an MLS soccer team, and a leader within the Pro Soccer Chaplains Association. One of the world’s most recognizable soccer players joined…
7 Disruptive Church Trends That Will Rule 2026
As you lead your church in 2026, the world—and the church—is shifting faster than anyone expected. Even more surprising, the shifts include a lot of positive movement—surges in faith among the next generation and rising commitment to Christ. Yes, there…
Is Your Church Ready For the Next American Revival?
How Pastors and Churches Can Prepare for a Quiet Revival Emerging Across America By Sarah Nashif-Tan, VisitorReach You’ve heard the whispers of revival or at least a shift happening. A step toward faith. People waking up to faith in unexpected…
Why Pastors Are Losing Confidence in Their Church’s Evangelism: A Personal Reflection on Growing Awareness
By Chuck Bomar, President, Barna Group I remember the early days of my ministry when I would preach with great conviction about the necessity of everyone engaging in the Great Commission. I thought it was clear: every Christian was called…
Church Revitalization: 5 Shifts You Need to Make
So you’re a leader… at a traditional church. What are your first moves to help revitalize the church and see it thrive again? Or maybe thrive for the first time ever? When I began ministry leading three small, dying traditional…
13 Predictions About the Future Church and Shifting Attendance Patterns
Every generation experiences change. But sometimes you sense you’re in the midst of truly radical change, the kind that happens only every few centuries. Increasingly, I think we’re in such a moment now. Those of us in in Western culture who are over age 30 were…
17 Things That Demonstrate The World You Grew Up In No Longer Exists
You know things are changing, but the real question is how quickly and how deeply. Well, the change is pretty fast and pretty deep. In fact, unless you’re under 25, the world into which you’re born doesn’t really exist anymore.…
Pros and Cons of a Celebrity Pastor Culture
Without a doubt, we live in a celebrity culture. It’s interesting that we can be fascinated with people we’ll never meet and who likely have little desire to meet us. But we are. And in the last decade, celebrity pastor…
5 Disruptive Church Trends That Will Rule 2025
As you head into 2025, what trends should you pay attention to as a church leader? One of the challenges church leaders have is that day-to-day ministry requires so much time, attention, and focus that it’s hard to see the…