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 […]
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What 500 Churches Discovered about Making Sunday the Best Day of the Week
Have you noticed “the rise of the Nones” in your community? Church demographers have observed that church attendance in America is on the decline because more and more people are declaring “None” as their religion. Even devout Christians are attending less frequently. What happened? And what can we do about it? What Sundays Used to […]
How to Scale Up Excellence and See Your Church Grow
You Can Make More and Better Happen Two Stanford professors have much to say to church leaders about how to get from here to there. Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao are leadership thinkers and professors at Stanford University who have wrestled with the process of spreading excellence across organizations. Their book, Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to […]