Mark Clark and Carey Nieuwhof talk about how church leaders can buck the current cultural trends and actually reach more people. Mark talks about what principles transcend time and what strategies need to change to reach more people, and Carey…
“Think Again: Why Religion is Good for Us” is written by Mark Clark. Mark is the Senior Pastor of Bayside Church in Sacramento, a close friend, and co-creator of our courses The Art of Better Reaching and The Art of Better…
Dave Ferguson peers into the future to talk about the future of the micro-church, networks and how red light, green light and yellow light thinking will change the future. Plus, he talks about how to be resilient in the face…
For years, the key to growth for many churches and other organizations (think media, conferences, etc.) has been to create great content. In the case of a church, great preaching often (not always, but often) has been synonymous with growth.…
So you’re leading a more divided group of people than you ever imagined. And you’re leading them in a very angry era. Talk about complicated. People have always been somewhat divided. But it’s never been this divided. And people have rarely been this…
This post is written by Dillon Smith. Even before the pandemic struck, the western church has been filling fewer and fewer stadiums over the last few decades. As Gordon Macdonald talked about in this interview, the days of Billy Graham’s evangelistic…
“3 Ideas for Increasing Your Influence with Gen Z” is written by Shane Sanchez. Shane is the Director of High School Content at Orange. Does the idea of influencing the next generation (Gen Z) ever overwhelm you? Chances are for…
You’ve had so much change thrown at you this year, it’s hard to know what to do. Especially about church online. As more and more churches regather, it will be easier than ever to look at church online as something…
Maybe losing access to our buildings as church leaders wasn’t as disastrous as we thought. Church growth just spiked by 300% in the last month. Sure…so much as happened. And as frazzled and exhausted as you might feel in the…
How do some organizations become so insider-focused and even indifferent to the people they’re trying to reach? For example, are 90% of companies you phone for customer support really experiencing a higher than normal call volume every single day no matter when…