Maybe Your Church Needs a New Water Fountain
Something wasn’t right at the first game ever played in the stadium just outside Orlando. People were fainting. An interesting story and a...
Our Top 7 Worst Communication Habits of Church Staff
Here are the top seven of our worst communication habits for church staff. How many might have caused a problem for you in the past week?
Google Research: What Makes a Perfect Team?
Recently, Google did a study of what makes teams effective. The big finding: the KINDS of people (a.k.a. the individual personalities) in...
Do People In Your Church Trust Your Leadership?
Here’s a simple formula ‘that will enable you to take trust from an intangible and unquantifiable variable to an indispensable factor that...
7 Times When Your Church Should NOT Hire Staff
Thom Rainer, the president of LifeWay offers these seven times that your church should NOT hire staff.
7 People Your Community Trusts MORE Than Your Church Staff
A new poll from Gallup was just released. Turns out that Pastors and Church Leaders aren’t the most trusted profession. Not even close.
The Next Big Thing in the Church Won’t Be Anything Like the Last Big Thing
Most churches that are growing or innovative risk often. Most churches that are stuck, plateaued, or in decline have a deep aversion to...
4 Types of Change in Your Church (and the right questions to ask yourself during these changes)
There are essentially four types of change in every church: Strategic Change, People Change, Process Change, and Changes in You. Here's how...
1 in 5 People In Your Church Probably Don’t Believe in Hell!
According to a new Pew Research Center study, only 82% of professing evangelicals believe in Hell today (and only 60% of mainliners). What...
Why Seemingly Smart People Don't Get Your Vision for the Church
Church leaders get frustrated with people don't follow. And when you think you've clearly communicated your vision and people just don't...