Every pastor I know wants to grow his church by leading people to Christ. If that’s you, you’re in good company. If you’re succeeding at it, you’re in rare company. According to the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism, only 10% of our churches are succeeding at leading people to Christ. 90% of American churches are either […]
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10 Ways for Pastors to Be High Capacity Leaders
What do pastors have in common with CEOs? Quite a bit when you think about it: casting the vision, making hiring decisions, setting strategic direction, and innovating, just for starters. These high level leadership abilities don’t come out of thin air. How does a willing servant of the Lord become a high capacity leader? You learn about leadership and […]
How to Make a Church PreService Video that People Love to Share
Like you, I’m always looking for new ideas that will make my church better. When I got the idea from Rich Birch’s podcast 5 Elements of Effective PreService Videos to make a countdown video for our services that shows our church in our city, I knew we had to do it. It’s brilliant: give guests a two-minute story […]
The Guide to Better Transitions in your Weekend Services
Did you know that you can make a leap in the quality of your worship services just by paying attention to one simple thing? Usually, we concentrate on finding the songs, videos, and other creative elements for the worship service. The focus is on “the moment” of each element. What will take your worship service to the next […]
How to Recover From the Post Easter Blues
Every pastor I know gets a little depressed (or a lot depressed) on the days following Easter. It’s natural. I call it the Post-Easter Blues. Easter is our Super Bowl. We pour our lives into preaching, and meeting, and caring for people, surviving the week on less sleep and more adrenaline than we should. Easter comes […]
How to Pray like Paul for your Church
I get tired of praying the same things over and over again for my church, so this week I accessed a prayer expert for his help on what to pray. Here are seven prayers that Paul prayed for the churches he knew. Together they’ll give you a week’s worth of biblical prayers you can pray […]
How to Fire Up Your Church for Spiritual Growth
I always thought spiritual growth was like a buffet. You step up to the table and choose whatever looks good to you. You sample. You go back for seconds. And in the end, you’re done. As a church leader using the cafeteria approach, I figured that if I could set out a variety of foods, then people could choose for […]
How to Attract your Easter Visitors Back
For those of us who lead local churches, Easter is our Super Bowl. More people attend. More people come to Christ. There’s excitement. There’s hope. And then there’s the week after Easter. One of your lowest attended Sundays of the year. Why? Because everyone attends on Easter. All of your Chreasters, all your once-in-a-whilers, once-a-month-ers, and twice-a-month-ers. […]