by Scott Ball | Aug 16, 2019 | Church Growth, Church Health, Church Revitalization, Developing Leaders, Evaluations, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Turnaround Pastors, Vision
Not everyone has the “right stuff.” We often tell our children that they can be anything they want to be, but this isn’t entirely true. It’s a nice sentiment, but it’s just false. At this point in life, my chances of being a professional...
by A.J. Mathieu | Aug 12, 2019 | Church Growth, Church Health, Church Revitalization, Disciple Making, Great Commission, Leadership, Turnaround Pastors
I had a conversation with a business consultant, a lay leader that contacted me on behalf of his church. He wanted to discuss how they could turn around after years of declining attendance. In the course of the conversation he mentioned a need to be more...
by Scott Ball | Aug 5, 2019 | Church Culture, Church Growth, Church Health, Church Revitalization, Community Outreach, Leadership, Turnaround Pastors, Vision
The world is full of darkness. The endless news of violence, tragedy, and pain is enough to make a person never want to leave their house. We know that the world has been dark since the fall of mankind, but the darkness in our age feels even darker and more...
by Scott Ball | Jul 2, 2019 | Church Growth, Church Health, Church Revitalization, Disciple Making, Strategic Planning
Churches are great at filling the calendar. Most churches have no shortage of programs, events, and fellowships. Yet most churches somehow struggle to do the one thing Jesus commissioned us to do: make disciples. Declining churches assume that providing a variety of...
by admin | Jun 4, 2019 | Church Culture, Church Growth, Church Health, Church Revitalization, Values
We do what we value. A few weeks ago, I received an email from a pastor who said, “all this talk about mission and values is theoretical, I only want to talk about practical stuff.” In other words, he thought that having a discussion about core values was fluff and...
by Brad Bridges | Jun 4, 2019 | Church Growth, Church Health, Developing Leaders
Everyone wants to be healthy. At least we think we do. Then we learn what being a healthy church requires. These common characteristics of a healthy church could be applied to almost any ministry or organization. 1) They are led well. Pastors committed to...
