by Scott Ball | Sep 29, 2016 | Church Health, Communication, Developing Leaders, Leadership, Staff Development
A church’s most valuable asset is its leadership; so you must be careful not to burn out your team. In our collective decades of ministry and consulting experience, we have seen again and again how churches that lack healthy leadership eventually struggle. To be...
by Scott Ball | Sep 6, 2016 | Christian Life, Communication, Leadership, Theology, Vision
Those of us who are regularly teaching and/or preaching in our churches do so to encourage life change on the part of the people who sit under our ministries. And as we are preaching or teaching life changing principles from God’s word, our desire is that these...
by Scott Ball | Aug 9, 2016 | Church Growth, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Sunday Secret Shopper, Vision
Back to school, back to church. Throughout the country, churches of all sizes and denominations experience a bump in fall church attendance. Congregations benefit from people wanting to get back into the rhythm of “normal” life after the crazy summertime...
by Scott Ball | Jul 27, 2016 | Church Culture, Church Governance, Church Health, Leadership
Churches without leadership accountability have a one-way ticket to organizational implosion. This isn’t an overstatement. It’s the truth. When pastors lack effective accountability, eventually the ministry will fail. That’s why leadership culture is...
by Scott Ball | May 9, 2016 | Student Ministry
As a kid, I have very few memories more vivid than of spending a week in Vacation Bible School. I would attend two weeks: one at my church and one at my best friend’s church. I remember the week at my friend’s church the most because it was different. As a part of...