Reaching more people has never been more important, and it’s never been more challenging. So, as a church leader, you’d love to reach more people and would love to see your church grow. Here’s the dilemma: Reaching more people has…
This article is a summary of the keynote I gave at the Church Disruption Summit. The full video replay with more details is available as a bonus resource inside The Art of Leading Change course. Imagine it’s 2032. While it’s impossible to…
Every once in a while, you hear a question you can’t get out of your head. A while back, I was listening to Sean Morgan’s interview with Ashley Wooldridge from Christ Church of the Valley. It was a great conversation…
“How Christian Introverts Will Help Save the Church From Itself” is written by Joe Terrell, content manager at CareyNieuwhof.com. Joe’s writings for Medium, Relevant, Carey Nieuwhof, and his personal blog, Instrument of Mercy, have been read by over three million people.…
By now you’ve heard the number. According to a recent Barna poll, 42% of pastors have seriously thought about quitting ministry in the last year. As you can see from the graph below, that number has risen significantly, jumping from…
So, you throw your heart into preparing and delivering a sermon only to see…almost no response? We’ve all been there as preachers. I’ve been there. And my guess is you’ve seen that kind of tepid response too. The ‘nice sermon’…
As you’ve noticed—as everyone’s noticed—there seems to be something rotten in the Denmark of Christian leadership. Every time you think there can’t be another megachurch pastor who fails, well, there’s another megachurch pastor who fails. And those are the stories…
Bestselling author, and North Point Church founder, Andy Stanley, weighs in on the new metrics of ministry for the future church, and talks about how politics, partisanship, ideology and the drive toward theocracy are damaging the church (and what to…
Dave Adamson, who led social and online ministry for several megachurches including North Point, talks about why some churches should stop live streaming their services, the reasons church attendance might be decentralizing rather than decreasing, and how radical self-care has…
You know how much work it takes to write a sermon (or any talk, for that matter). And you’ve likely also wondered why some talks seem to stick while others don’t. Sometimes, you work for hours or days on a…