The Unstuck Church: An Interview with Tony Morgan

Sunday, June 4, 2017

UnstuckBookInterview from Paul Alexander on Vimeo.

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Tony Morgan, the Founder and Lead Strategist at the Unstuck Group, to talk about his new book The Unstuck Church.

In the conversation we discussed:

The 7 Phases of a Church Life-Cycle
Do all churches go through all 7 phases?
What does it take for a church to reach “Sustained Health?”
What are some early warning signs that a church has entered into the “Maintenance Phase” and is getting ready to decline?
It it possible for a church to get stuck in the “Momentum Growth,” or “Strategic Growth,” phases, and what does that look like?
Is it possible for a church to recover once its entered the “Preservation,” or “Life Support” phases?

Follow this link to pick up your own copy of The Unstuck Church!

Tony is founder and chief strategic officer of The Unstuck Group, a company that helps churches get unstuck through consulting and coaching experiences designed to focus vision, strategy and action. For 14 years, Tony served on the senior leadership teams at West Ridge Church in Dallas, Georgia, NewSpring Church in South Carolina, and Granger Community Church in Indiana. He’s written several books, as well as articles that have been featured with the Willow Creek Association, Catalyst and Pastors.com. He writes about leadership regularly at tonymorganlive.com. His next book, The Unstuck Church: Equipping Churches to Experience Sustained Health, from Thomas Nelson is now available.

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[Free Webinar] The Unstuck Church: Why Churches Grow, Thrive, Decline & Die

Sunday, May 14, 2017

We’re less than a week away from the in-store date for the new book, The Unstuck Church by Tony Morgan. If you haven’t already checked out the pre-order perks, there are just a couple of more days to get those extras.

Most churches start, grow, thrive, decline and eventually end, but we believe God’s plan for our churches is that they grow in maturity towards a peak of sustained health.

Do you know where your church is today in its life cycle?

On Thursday, May 25, Tony Morgan, Amy Anderson and Gabe Kolstad will host a free, live webinar to help you answer questions like:

Do all churches hit all phases of the life cycle?
Where do growing churches typically get stuck moving toward sustained health?
What does sustained health look like?
What are the early warning signs a church has entered the maintenance season and started to decline?
How can we confirm what phase our church is in today?

Space is limited and filling up! Register now to join us.

Register Now

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[Webinar Replay] Multistuck: 4 Mistakes Churches Make When Launching New Campuses

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

A couple weeks ago, I enjoyed a conversation with Tony Morgan, Gavin Adams, and Tammy Kelley, three people I greatly respect from The Unstuck Group, about the 4 most common mistakes we have seen churches make when launching a new campus:

Launching too small.
Launching with the wrong leader.
Launching in the wrong location.
Launching with the wrong team.

There is no doubt that a healthy multisite strategy can help you lead more people in your region to Christ. But, if you’re not careful, launching new campuses can quickly turn organizational cracks into significant gaps.

By the way, this is the last week to sign up for a Multisite Coaching Network, one of three coaching networks offered this year by Unstuck Group. You can follow this link to get more information and reserve one of the last spots!

If you missed out on our conversation, you can catch the replay here:

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Multisite Webinar

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

A healthy multisite strategy can help you lead more people in your region to Christ. But launching new campuses can quickly turn organizational cracks into significant gaps.

What steps can you take to avoid getting stuck on your multisite journey?

In this free webinar, Tony Morgan will host Gavin Adams, Paul Alexander and Tammy Kelley for a conversation about the four most common mistakes The Unstuck Group has seen churches make when they launch campuses… and practical ways to avoid getting #multistuck yourself.

Wednesday, March 15 at 1pm EST
45 min. webinar + 15 min. live Q&A

Follow this link to register

When you register for the webinar, we’ll give you a free copy of our guide, 10 Multisite Readiness Checkpoints, a resource we share with all of our multisite consulting and coaching clients.

TONY MORGAN
Chief Strategic Officer,
The Unstuck Group

For 14 years, Tony served on the senior leadership teams at West Ridge Church (Dallas, GA), NewSpring Church (Anderson, SC) and Granger Community Church (Granger, IN). He’s written several books and articles that have been featured with the Willow Creek Association, Catalyst and Pastors.com.

GAVIN ADAMS
Lead Pastor,
Woodstock City Church

Gavin serves as the Lead Pastor of Woodstock City Church, a campus location of North Point Ministries. He is a Ministry Consultant with The Unstuck Group, and writes to help others make leadership and faith transferable at GavinAdams.com.

PAUL ALEXANDER
Executive Pastor,
Sun Valley Community Church

Paul has more than 20 years experience serving in the local church, the last 15 of which have been on the Sr. Leadership Teams of some of the nation’s leading mega-churches. Currently, Paul is serving as the Executive Pastor at Sun Valley Community Church, a large multi-site church located in the Phoenix area.

TAMMY KELLEY
Creative Arts Pastor,
Christ Community Church

Tammy has over 20 years of ministry experience serving in key leadership roles at Ginghamsburg Church, Willow Creek Community Church, Vanderbloemen Search Group, and in her current role as Creative Arts Pastor at Christ Community Church. Holding an executive MBA and practical church experience, she brings a good blend of business and arts to the team.

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[Webinar Replay] Leading Change: 3 Shifts for Healthy & Growing Churches in 2017

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Monday I had some fun hanging out with my friends Tony Morgan, as well as Carey Nieuwhof, and Gabe Kolstad from The Unstuck Group‘s consultant team, for a webinar about one of my favorite topics: leading change.

We specifically dug into three big church changes that more than 600 pastors told us were the most important onesthey wanted to lead in 2017.