Posts Tagged ‘church growth’
5 Reasons Why Some Churches Won’t Recover
If you’ve been paying attention to our world over the last few months, you’ve no doubt seen some dramatic economic news. You’ve probably seen things that made you wonder about the future of your church. You may be worried about what might come next. We’ve seen the initial impact that COVID-19 has had on people,…
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CNLP 351: Nona Jones on the Best and Worst Practices for Social Media, Why Online Ministry is About More Than Streaming Content and Where Social Media is Going in the Next Few Years
Facebook’s Nona Jones returns to the podcast to talk about the best and worst practices churches and organizations use on social media, why online ministry is about more than just streaming content, and what the church and social media will be like post-COVID. Welcome to Episode 351 of the podcast. Listen and access the show notes…
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Why You’re Not Out of the Woods Yet—3 Keys To ReOpening Your Church Well
You’ve been operating in crisis mode for months now. You’ve made pivot after pivot with little time to process or prepare. You’ve made the best decisions you could with the information you had and prayed that it would work. Adrenaline has ruled the day. As we move into the heat of summer, it looks like…
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8 Easy Ways to Blow It In This Next Season of Ministry
The good news is it feels like we’re entering a new season of leadership and ministry. Although the coronavirus is still with us, churches and businesses are reopening and things that weren’t possible a month or two ago are now possible again. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the new season is…
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Where is Future Church Attendance Heading? 10 Questions. 10 Hunches.
Talk to any church leader over the last decade, and they’ll tell you it feels more challenging than ever to get people to come to church on a Sunday. Talk to any leader who is reopening his or her church, and they’ll tell you it’s even harder now. Current in-person attendance levels appear to be…
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CNLP 343: Nicky Gumbel on Why He Changed His Mind About Church Online, Why Online is a Better Outreach Tool Than In-Person Ministry, and How He Repositioned His Church and Alpha for Explosive Growth
Nicky Gumbel is pastor of Holy Trinity Brompton, London, one of the largest churches in the UK and pioneer of Alpha, a ministry that’s reached over 20 million people with the Gospel and a former barrister (attorney). In this interview, Nicky explains how and why he changed his mind about church online, why, despite his…
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CNLP 341: Joel Manby with Crisis Lessons from Amazon, Saab, SeaWorld and The Great Recession
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…
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5 Big Attitude Differences That Separate Growing Churches From Declining Churches
So what’s the difference between churches that grow and churches that decline? Well, there are many, but—crisis or no crisis—one of the biggest differences I see is in the attitude of the leaders. The leaders of growing churches almost always share a common attitude. So do the leaders of declining churches. And the attitude has a huge…
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CNLP 339: Tim Keller on How to Bring the Gospel to Post-Christian America, How He’d Preach Today if He was Starting Over Again, Why Founders Get Addicted to Their Churches and Why He Left Redeemer
Tim Keller is one of America’s most renowned preachers, authors and thought leaders. Tim talks about what NYC was like when he planted Redeemer Church in 1989, how the city’s changed, how the culture has changed and how his preaching has evolved. He shares the approach he would take if he was preaching regularly today,…
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CNLP 338: Sean Morgan on How to Lead Through Unpredictability, Leadership Lessons from the Military, And How to Prepare for the New Normal
Sean Morgan shares crisis leadership insights he gained from serving in the military in the Middle East and combines them with insights he’s learned from working with high capacity leaders in growing churches to give advice on leading through unpredictability, crisis and offer thoughts on what the new normal for churches and culture will look…
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