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Why Bible Sales Are Up and Bible Confidence Is Down (And What We Can Do About It)
Your people own more Bibles than any generation in American history and can navigate fewer of them. That is not...
Read PostYour Church Is Built for the Size You’re Trying to Leave
Same building. Same service times. Same volunteer roster. Add one hundred people this Sunday with no warning, and somewhere in...
Read PostHow to Write a Performance Plan For Church Staff
You already know who it is. A name showed up before you finished that sentence. You have had the conversation,...
Read PostWhen Your Budget Starts Making Leadership Decisions
Nobody walked into your office and threatened to stop giving. They didn't have to. You ran the math yourself, counted...
Read PostWhen You Don’t Set Standards, Everyone Sets Their Own
There's a conversation you've been circling for three years. It involves someone loyal, someone who has been there longer than...
Read PostWhat Should You Do When A Culture Complaint Lands On Your Desk?
Move slowly and you're accused of protecting someone. Move quickly and you're accused of overreacting. Most pastors don't have a...
Read PostThe Five Questions Your Programming Meeting Keeps Skipping
Nobody asked who it was for. Not in the demographic sense. I mean who, specifically, at what point in their...
Read PostThe Audit Every Church Front Door Needs Before Next Sunday
Kelly didn't walk through your doors evaluating your sermon. She walked through evaluating whether this was safe enough to stay...
Read PostWhy Your Email List Needs Three Different Emails This Week
You're asking one message to do three jobs at once. A first-time guest needs orientation. A regular attender needs a...
Read PostWhy Your Best Volunteers Fade Without a Fight
Your best volunteer missed three weeks in a row. Nobody called. Nobody noticed out loud. She noticed that nobody noticed....
Read PostThe Six Words Every Church Leader Needs to Retire
Why "this is just how we do it" is a warning sign, and the four-step process to evaluate church systems...
Read PostStop Preaching to the Room. Start Preaching to the Person.
Most sermons speak to everyone and land on no one. Here's the one decision that turns a sermon into an...
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