Posts Tagged ‘future church’
4 Ways to Quickly (and UnIntentionally) Stop Your Innovation Curve And Miss The Future
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…
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Avoid This Big Mistake: Stepping Back Into the Past When You Step Back Into Your Building
So you might already be thinking about what life and ministry will be like when you step back into your building. A few of you might be heading back into your facility this weekend. As America and other parts of the world begin to open again (faster than many expected), there’s more at stake than…
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5 Predictions About the Future Church While Everything’s Still Unknown
By now you’ve realized that the Coronavirus pandemic is not an interruption nearly as much as it’s a disruption. And as you move more deeply through this crisis, the question of what kind of world will emerge beyond the crisis is probably also starting to occupy your mind. Mine too. It’s pretty clear by now…
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5 Ways The Current Crisis Is Accelerating the Arrival of the Future Church
Crisis is an accelerator. Nobody knows that better than you right now. And the disruption has hit church leaders especially hard. Crisis forces you to do things you previously thought about doing and put off. It moves you to do things you’d never thought you’d do (like move to video teaching in some cases).…
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Growing Churches In the Future Will Do These 5 Things
Need some hope in a world where so many churches have stopped growing? It’s not all gloom and doom. I’m an optimist. You can always find the opportunity in every obstacle. And yet, I get it. It’s easy to get discouraged about the future of the church. While the world seems to be falling apart,…
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Some Thoughts on the Wave of Deconversions and The State of Preaching Today
It’s the hope of almost every preacher I’ve ever met that people will embrace Jesus. That’s been my hope every time I preach. And yet the opposite seems to be happening: more people than ever before seem to be walking away from Christ. It’s not that they haven’t been to church, they have. And they’ve…
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5 Smarter Ways To Embrace Infrequent Church Attenders
It’s a challenge you face as a church leader: what do you do with people who only occasionally attend church? Like at Easter or Christmas or special occasions? But infrequent attendance isn’t just for holidays anymore. It’s for every day. How do you respond as people generally attend less often? You know…the couple who comes…
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10 Really Big Questions About Future Church Attendance (And 10 Hunches)
Talk to any church leader, and they’ll tell you it feels more challenging than ever to get people to come to church on a Sunday. Even in growing churches (like ours), the competition for peoples’ time, attention and devotion seems to get more intense every year. You’ve felt it too. So what’s up? And where…
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Why Cool Church Doesn’t Work Anymore (More on the Future Church)
Everything has its season. And the season of the cool church is, in many ways, coming to an end. Recently, I wrote a post that generated a lot of discussion online and offline about why charismatic churches are growing and attractional churches are past peak. You can read that post here. To drill down further, here’s…
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5 Essentials Every Church Constitution Needs To Thrive In The Future
Today’s post comes from Jeff Brodie. Jeff is the Lead Pastor at Connexus Church, where I’m Founding Pastor. Jeff’s my successor as Lead Pastor. He’s doing a phenomenal job leading our church community, and he’s also a loving husband, father and friend. This post is originally appeared on Jeff’s blog (where it’s no longer available) and…
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