What’s The ONE Thing That Could Change Everything?

Rethinking Your Church Model MASTERCLASS BEGINS TODAY! MASTERCLASS DETAILS I created a framework model to help pastors and church leaders discover why their current approach isn’t working, design a better solution for their current community, and deliver a new church discipleship pathway. Six Video Sessions Available On-demand. Nearly 5 hours of insanely practical video content. Seven 1-Hour Digital Sessions Live with […]

2 Solutions For a Declining or Dying Church

The End is Nearing Do you sense your church’s best days are behind you? If so, keep going! This post, while dire, is for you. There is hope. We will attack our final two phases of the Church Life Cycle in this one post. These last two phases are too emotionally difficult to spread out […]

5 Strategic Decisions to Stop Church Decline

Is your church in the Preservation Phase of the Church Life Cycle?  Preservatives keep food from spoiling.  These additives and chemicals allow our foods to last much longer than in their natural form. On the surface, this seems positive. In most ways, it is. However, preservatives can be dangerous. Our bodies often don’t process these […]

How To Ensure Serving Your Church Model Doesn’t Become Your Mission

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it […]

Healthy Churches Grow: Creating an Intentional Discipleship Pathway

In our last post, we discussed how strategy utilized well can bring order to the chaos of creation.  Let’s turn our attention to the next phase in the church life cycle: Orchestration. If you missed the previous posts, read them here: POST 1: How to Recycle Your “Organization Life Cycle” POST 2: You Can’t Fix […]

Strategies to Launch A Healthy Church

About this series…  Welcome to our FOURTH post about organizational life cycles and, more importantly, how to avoid the normative decline and death that concludes the cycle.  If you missed the previous posts, read them here: POST 1: How to Recycle Your “Organization Life Cycle” POST 2: You Can’t Fix What You Can’t Name – […]

How to Recycle Your Strategy to Reset Your Life Cycle

About this series…  Welcome to our third post about organizational life cycles and, more importantly, how to avoid the normative decline and death that concludes the cycle.    If you missed the previous post, read it here: POST 1: How to Recycle Your “Organization Life Cycle” POST 2: You Can’t Fix What You Can’t Name […]

You Can’t Fix What You Can’t Name – Organizational Life Cycle Edition

In the previous post, we discussed the reality of organizational life cycles. You should read the first post in prep for this conversation.  It seems organizations, like people, mature through a life cycle. Comparing organizations to people is somewhat trite but also accurate in most respects. Like people, organizations begin as an idea, product, service, […]

How to Recycle Your “Organization Life Cycle”

This is the beginning of a learning journey about your organization (church, company, or business), the natural life cycle organizations typically experience, and how we can recycle before it’s too late. Let’s get started… What is an Organizational Life Cycle?  “Organizational Life Cycles” have always been a hot business (and church) topic. And for a […]

6 Ways to Find Purpose Outside of Self-Promotion

We live in an age of platform building and self-promotion. I assume this has always been part of the human condition. Self-promotion feels like an outflow of selfish ambition and vain conceit. Of course, social media has only amplified the issue. I regularly see people retweeting themselves. Think about that. Those attempting to build their […]