100 Years of Church Growth
One tool to clarify five eras of ministry
A sneak preview of a new tool that shows where the church has been and where it is going.
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How to Measure Real Church Growth
What are your ministry outputs?
When church leaders think about growth, they default to measuring people's participation, not their production.
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What is the [functional] Great Commission of your Church?
A Manifesto for REAL Church Growth
If we’re honest, it’s pretty easy to see the functional Great Commission in North America: Go into all the world and make more worship attenders, baptizing them in the name of small groups, and teaching them to volunteer a few Photo by Vero Photoart on Unsplash And, “Organized Disciple-Making” does not equate to the programs you’re running—or, for that matter, to the programs the “bigger and better” church down the street or the one across the country is running. See, if you’re [...]
10 Ways We Get in the Way of God Building His Church
Scriptures clearly remind us that God is building his church. But the reality of church can seem so contradictory to this truth. Reggie McNeal once wrote, "We have the best churches men can build, but we are still waiting for the [...]
Why Your Church is Probably Operating at Less than 50% Effectiveness
Most of you will disagree with what I am about to suggest. Nevertheless, I will try my best to share with you what I’ve learned over the last 13 years. Keep in mind that this post title is not a [...]
14 Reasons Your Church is NOT Ready to Go Multisite (from Jim Tomberlin's FREE e-Book)
My friend Jim Tomberlin is a multisite guru, leveraging his experience at Willow Creek Community Church to help many churches think through their multisite strategy.This week Jim published a useful little tool called 125 Tips for Multisite Churches.As a clarity [...]
5 Organizational Hazards of Leading a Growing Church
This post is the second part of what I spoke on two weeks ago at Leadership Network's Rapid Growth Leadership Community. The first post was, 4 Personal Hazards of Pastoring a Growing Church.As we look to the organizational side, there [...]
4 Personal Hazards of Pastoring a Growing Church
I was thrilled to join Sam Chand and Chris Willard at Leadership Network (LN) this week for a Rapid Growth Leadership Community. A leadership community is a gathering of 10 church teams that come together around a topic or theme as convened by [...]
Simply Fast Church Growth: Eric Geiger Reveals 4 Factors Behind Christ Fellowship's Rocket Ride
I recently spent a day with Eric Geiger, who has just joined the Auxano team. In addition to serving as the executive pastor at Christ Fellowship in Miami, and having co-authored the highly influential book Simple Church, Eric helps walk [...]
12 Kinds of Churches- Which One is Yours?
I have identified 12 kinds of churches in North America, in order to provide a practical look at the growth challenges of today. As an introduction to a series, I provide a peak at the list and a few opening [...]
