From Baptist Global News By Jeff Brumley Nearly six in 10 Millennials who grow up in churches leave to join the growing ranks of Americans with no religious affiliation, new research shows. That spells confusing and scary times not only for congregations worried about...
Don’t avoid conflict, avoid triangles By Doug Bixby From The Christian Century When my brother was a regional manager for a large corporation, a top-level executive came to visit him at his office. During the visit, my brother shared some of his ideas about the...
5 reasons, despite the resistance, to set goals rather than merely to make plans. By Scott Scruggs From Leadership Journal Years ago I noticed a certain pattern in the ministry I was leading. Every summer our leadership team would meet to plan for the upcoming year....
By John Wimberly From Congregational Consulting Group In what is surely a gross over-generalization on my part, I want to assert that the mainline denominations have, for the most part, not taken spiritual formation seriously—for decades. We take social justice...
By David Brubaker Nearly every congregation has a hushed story about one. That “awful meeting” in which participants said terrible things, relationships were shattered, and permanent scars resulted. In their 1999 study of “Breakaway Organizations,” Dyck and Stark...
