Part 3: 4 Ways to Keep Your Pastor from “Quiet Quitting”
Pastors surrendered to the call of ministry to be part of a movement of God that would change the world, not live moment to moment, maintaining a monument to a religious movement of the past.
Nostalgia Can Mug Joy from You.
Whether its a cup of coffee, a type of vehicle, a song, or a certain order of things; nostalgia can mug us from experiencing the joy of stepping with faith into the future story God has planned for us
7 Reasons to Celebrate Church’s Breakthrough Story and a Free Template
We’ve provided seven reasons not to miss an opportunity to celebrate a church in your network and a FREE downloadable template that writers don’t want you to know about.
Part 2: 4 Ways to Keep Your Pastor from “Quiet Quitting”
"We cannot afford to let down our Christian standards just to hold the interest of people who want to go to hell and still belong to a church.” A.W. Tozer
Five Reasons to Consider a Pull Approach to Congregational Strategic Change
In an age where everyone is discussing the importance of discipleship, it is interesting how many strategic planning processes focus on leaving it up to "the professional" pastor, pastoral staff, or key leadership team to set the direction of the Bride of Christ. How can we seriously say that we think discipleship is crucial if we're unwilling to allow the Bride behind the curtain to participate in developing the future story God wants to tell through the local body of believers?
2 Dimensions of Congregational Giving
As a network leader, you can look at financial stewardship and the patterns it creates in two dimensions: What It reveals about the Church and what it reveals about the value of the Network to the church.
Four Pivotal Questions for a Dying Church
You already know that there’s no silver bullet approach. You already know that one plants, one waters, and God gives the increase. You know you can’t do it alone; instead, you need a team to help you. You see all of this, and probably so much more, but you desperately want to know how to start the process.
The real question you may be asking is, “How do I get the dying church I’m in to see the seriousness of their condition and their need for change before it’s too late? How can I get members to see that our church is sick and needs a change?”
4 Ways to Prevent Soul Malpractice
The standard cultural portrait of a pastor in our modern age significantly differs from those who proclaimed God’s message in antiquity. In large part, people look for a peaceful protagonist with a pleasing demeanor and positive messages. People long for someone who will cuddle and nestle them into comfortable spaces of complacency and self-acceptance. Like a doctor who refuses to deliver the patient the news that eighty percent of their body is failing, these practitioners of passivity are committing the worse type of malpractice; soul malpractice.
Crossing the Line
At some point, people face the reality that to step into a deeper and more intimate relationship with Jesus, they’re going to step out of the comfortable relationships they have with most of their crowd of contacts. It isn’t that they’ll have to have to abandon or have nothing with their crowd of contacts; rather, by deciding to follow Jesus more intimately, it would put them out of step with the cadence of their peers.
The Baptist association: An Amazing Secret Hiding in Plain Sight
Associations are often hiding in plain sight. Many of them do not understand and actualize the amazing secret they represent. This secret has qualities churches often do not realize. They are living breathing organisms and this has significant implications for the local church.