From Leadership Journal God’s plans for your church may be bigger than you imagine John Ortberg Somebody asked me recently: “How’s the church going?” How do you answer that? Is it going well if you make the budget? Or fill a building? Or beat...
From Congregational Consulting Group By Lawrence Peers Many congregations have an intermittent fascination with “vision.” Particularly around stewardship time, congregations try to leverage vision to inspire better giving. Often, congregations look to their new clergy...
From Baptist News Global By Jeff Brumley Just a few years ago, Eddie Hammett says, the subject of deacons in the free church tradition started coming up in much of the congregational consulting and coaching work he was doing. Many churches — and plenty of deacons —...
Disciple Making Is Still the #1 Problem Facing the Church Today From The Effective Church Today By Bill Tenny-Brittian Counting Counts Recently a troll caught one of our posts about radical disciple making and took it out for an attempted thrashing. To be honest, I...
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....
