Five ways to recognise if a church newcomer is a church-shopper from Carey Nieuwhof. “Trying to appease a serial church shopper is an exercise in pleasing the un-pleasable.” Read the whole post here.
Five ways to recognise if a church newcomer is a church-shopper from Carey Nieuwhof. “Trying to appease a serial church shopper is an exercise in pleasing the un-pleasable.” Read the whole post here.
The following questions come from an article by Karl Vaters about decluttering the body life of local churches. Any church that’s been around for a while has long-standing ministries that are loved and used all the time. They’re front-and-center. But we also have ministries that have not aged well. They’ve stopped working, but they still …
An article by Adam Stadtmiller on cultivating change without the cost of relationships. Superficial change can be made quickly, cultural change takes much longer. From the article: One of the most explosive errors that a leader can make is to mistake changing things for changing culture. Changing things is easy and offers quick emotional payoff …
Some churches are opposed to change because they’re invested more in themselves than they are in the Gospel. But some gospel grounded churches are put off change because of the way it’s introduced. Karl Vaters writes at Leadership Journal: Churches can handle change. If you’ve tried and failed to change things at your church, that …