Category: Leadership
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6 Simple Steps to Help your Church become more Generous
Generosity is not something that Jesus wants from you. It’s something He wants for you. Generous churches and church leaders who understand the generous nature of the God that we serve help the people in their churches become more generous. 1. Never use Guilt as a Motivator People feel bad enough about themselves; they don’t…
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9 Big Decisions that will Change your Church
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to sit down with a group of Executive Pastors who are serving in churches of 5,000+ and during the conversation I heard them talk about some of the best decisions they’ve made over the recent history of their churches that have made the greatest impact. I thought I’d…
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6 Things Your Church Should Know about Core Values
Left to themselves organizations…including churches, drift. It can happen to the best of us if we’re not careful. As organizations and churches grow they naturally become more complex. There are more assets to allocate, more people to manage, decisions seem to have greater consequences than did when you were smaller and more nimble, and those…
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10 Findings from New Research on Church Communications
Recently, The Unstuck Group released its latest research report: Say What?! Key Research on Church Communications. We paused to ask 186 churches about the ways in which they communicate. Here are the 10 most interesting findings from that research: Smaller churches (1-499 attendees) have significantly higher levels of social media engagement on all major platforms. Churches are most…
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10 Things You Lose when Your Church Grows
It’s impossible for your church to grow and everything to stay the same. I know it would be nice if everything could stay the same as the church grows, but it can’t. And the secret underlying truth is as your church grows you will lose some things along the way. But that’s kind of the…