Posts Tagged ‘future’
Are Churches Behaving Like Malls In the Age of Amazon, Just Hoping For People To Shop Again?
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…
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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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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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5 Signs You’re No Longer Inspiring Your Team
Leadership is hard. I totally get that, because I’ve been in it for over two decades. But to be perfectly honest, leadership never gets easy. The reason it’s never easy is that what’s hard keeps changing. You solve one problem, and now a new, likely larger one appears. That’s true when things are declining when…
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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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How to Handle the Cynics and Pessimists in Your Life
Leadership takes courage, and my guess is that some days it feels the cynics and pessimists have sucked almost all the courage and hope out of you. I get that. We’ve all had our share of cynics and pessimists try to dissuade us from action. We live in an age in which there is no…
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7 Signs Your Church Is Honestly…Mediocre
One of the problems many churches face these days is that they’re neither great at things or terrible at things. They’re honestly just…mediocre. Streaming has made watching other churches’ services easier than ever, and as I’ve scrolled through my Sunday morning feed or visited different churches over the years, I’ve been a little amazed at…
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5 Signs Your Church Isn’t Ready For the Future
It’s a tough question to answer: so, is your church ready for the future? A lot of the time, I’m afraid the answer is no. Culture is changing so rapidly that’s it’s hard for anyone to keep up. Ask people what’s changing faster, the culture or the church, and pretty much everyone will tell you…
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5 Hard Truths About Healthy Church Growth
Most church leaders I know would love to see their church grow. Similarly, most leaders I’ve met want their church to grow for what we might call the ‘right’ reasons: they sincerely want more people to encounter the love of Jesus Christ. That’s amazing. And yet there’s a strong reaction against growing churches by many…
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Fire the Naysayers: 7 Simple Ways To Turn Almost Any Obstacle Into An Opportunity
Every day as a leader, you face obstacles. Sometimes, they seem impossible to scale. I always tell my team, “Hey, we get paid to solve the problems no one else can solve.” There’s a bit of truth in that, isn’t there? Welcome to leadership. It’s easy to imagine that leadership should be easy, but it…
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