Whether your church or organization is large or small, it needs a team. Better than that, it needs a high performing team. How do you get one in place? Warren Bird studied some of the best teams around today, and…
What does it mean to be the church in a post-Christian culture? And why are more and more American Christians becoming churchless? David Kinnaman, President of Barna Research Group, talks about why Americans are becoming churchless more quickly than ever…
There’s an urgent question many church leaders are asking as we all try to figure out how to respond as people who attend church now attend less often. The question is this: How do you interact with infrequent church attendees who…
One trend almost every church leader is talking about today: people who attend church are attending less often. This podcast episode is the second part of a 5 part series on why people are attending church less often. Part 1: 10 Reasons…
So are the Pharisees running your church? Interesting question. How would you know? And perhaps, more appropriately, how would you know if that was you? You could argue that the since the religious leaders nailed Jesus to the cross, there’s no…
Very few leaders go into church leadership as pastors, staff, board members or volunteers hoping to be ineffective. And yet so many churches and church leaders end up that way—ineffective. You might be stuck in a church like that right…
What makes a successful leader successful? And—here’s the next question— could you adopt any of their characteristics to help you become a more effective leader? Sometimes it’s easy to think that some people were just ‘born’ successful or that they ‘have…
Happy January! So…what conversations are you planning on having with your team this year? One of the things I love about a new year is the Top 10 lists that help us look reflect back and plan ahead. They can…
So how do you turn around a declining church without blowing it apart? Can it even be done? Or will it always take years to do, if it’s even possible? Dom Ruso talks about how he leveraged the past to…
Everything has its season. And the season of the cool church is, in many ways, coming to an end. There was an era when simply being a cooler church than the church down the road helped churches reach unchurched people. There…